aware
adjEtymology
From Middle English aware, iwar, iware, ywar, from Old English ġewær (“aware”), from Proto-West Germanic *gawar, from Proto-Germanic *waraz (“aware, cautious”), from Proto-Indo-European *worós (“attentive”), from *wer- (“to heed; watch out”). Cognate with Dutch gewaar, German gewahr, Danish var, Swedish var, Icelandic varr.
Definitions
Vigilant or on one's guard against danger or difficulty.
- Stay aware! Don't let your guard down.
Conscious or having knowledge of something
Conscious or having knowledge of something; awake.
- Are you aware of what is being said about you?
- Gotta get going. I wasn’t aware that it was already so late.
To make (someone) aware of something.
- Conſcience is the director of all our actions, and diſcriminates them all, with the intentions of our hearts; awares us of the crime of the one, and the virtue of the other.
The neighborhood
- synonymaware
- synonymwitting
- synonymin the know
- synonymon the ball
- synonymon the same page
- synonymsharp
- synonymup to speed
- synonymup-to-date
- synonymwith it
- antonymunaware
- neighborwary
- neighborbeware
- neighbormodern
- neighborsane
- neighborvigilant
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at aware. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at aware. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at aware
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA