Dictionary Definition
awake adj
1 not in a state of sleep; completely conscious;
"lay awake thinking about his new job"; "still not fully awake"
[syn: awake(p)] [ant:
asleep(p)]
2 not unconscious; especially having become
conscious; "the patient is now awake and alert" [syn: alert, awake(p)]
3 (usually followed by `to') showing acute
awareness; mentally perceptive; "alert to the problems"; "alive to
what is going on"; "awake to the dangers of her situation"; "was
now awake to the reality of his predicament" [syn: alert, alive(p), awake(p)] v : stop
sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock" [syn:
wake up,
arouse, awaken, wake, come alive,
waken] [ant: fall asleep]
[also: awoken, awoke]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From Middle English awaken, from Old English awacan, from a- (intensive prefix) + wacan (wake).Pronunciation
- /əˈweɪk/
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- Rhymes: -eɪk
Adjective
(predicative only)Verb
Translations
adj. conscious
- Bosnian: budan
- Breton: dihun
- Catalan: despert, llevat
- Danish: vågen
- Dutch: wakker, ontwaakt
- Finnish: hereillä, valveilla
- French: éveillé
- German: wach
- Hebrew: ער (er) , ערה (era)
- Indonesian: bangun, terjaga, tidak tidur
- Italian: veglia, essere sveglio
- Polish: czujny, przebudzony
- Portuguese: desperto, acordado
- Scottish Gaelic: dùisgte
- Serbian:
- Slovak: zobudiť sa
- Slovene: buden , budna , budno
- Spanish: despierto
- Telugu: మేలుకునియుండు
- Vietnamese: thức, thức dậy
v. to gain consciousness
- Breton: dihuniñ
- Catalan: llevar-se
- Czech: vzbudit se
- Danish: vågne
- Dutch: ontwaken
- Finnish: herätä, havahtua
- French: se reveiller
- German: aufwachen
- Hebrew: להתעורר (le'hitorer)
- Indonesian: bangun, terjaga
- Italian: svegliarsi
- Japanese: 目覚める (mezameru), 目を覚ます (me wo samasu)
- Portuguese: acordar
- Scottish Gaelic: dùisg
- Slovene: zbuditi se
- Spanish: despertarse
- Vietnamese: thức dậy, dậy lên, dậy, thức
v. to cause someone to stop sleeping
- Breton: dihuniñ
- Catalan: despertar
- Czech: vzbudit
- Danish: vække
- Dutch: wekken
- Finnish: herättää
- French: reveiller
- German: aufwecken
- Hebrew: לעורר (le'orer); להעיר (le'ha'yr)
- Indonesian: membangunkan
- Italian: svegliare
- Japanese: 起こす (okosu)
- Scottish Gaelic: dùisg
- Slovene: zbuditi
- Spanish: despertar
- Vietnamese: thức dậy, dậy lên, dậy
v. to excite something latent
Antonyms
- adj. conscious
Synonyms
- adj. conscious
References
- American Heritage 2000
- Dictionary.com
- WordNet 2003
Extensive Definition
Wakefulness refers to the state of being awake
and is the behavioral manifestation of the metabolic state of
catabolism. It is the daily recurring period in an organism's life
during which consciousness, awareness
and all behaviors necessary for survival, i.e., success in
(Communication,
ambulation,
nutritional ingestion and procreation), are conducted. Being awake
is the opposite of being asleep a behavioral manifestation
of the daily recurring metabolic state of anabolism. Animals can eat and run, fly, swim or walk while awake; humans can also talk, listen,
write, read,
perform arithmetic,
and productively think
and work in the awake state.
It is self-evident that the behaviors which take
place while an organism is awake are necessary, complex and
diverse. As sleep is biologically essential, an excess of time
spent awake is considered sleep
deprivation, and there are serious physiological and
psychological consequences both for individual stretches of
wakefulness and serial preference for wakeful activity rather than
sleep.
External links
awake in Portuguese: Acordar
awake in Simple English: Awake
awake in Yiddish: וואַך
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
activate, agile, alert, alive, animate, annoy, apprehensive, arouse, aroused, attentive, au courant, awake
to, awaken, awaken to, be
begotten, be born, be incarnated, blow the coals, blow up, bright, call forth, call up,
clear-sighted, clear-witted, clearheaded, cognizant, come alive, come
into being, come into existence, come to, come to life, conscious, conversant, enkindle, enrage, excite, excited, fan, fan the fire, fan the flame,
feed the fire, fire,
flame, foment, frenzy, get up, heat, heedful, ignite, impassion, incense, incite, inflame, infuriate, keen, key up, kindle, knock up, knowing, lather up, light the
fuse, light up, live again, madden, move, nimble, on guard, on the, on the
alert, on the ball, on the job, overexcite, prompt, qui vive, quick, quicken, ready, realize, reanimate, resurge, resuscitate, return to life,
revive, rise again,
rouse, roused, see the light, sensible, sentient, set astir, set fire
to, set on fire, shake up, sharp, sleepless, smart, steam up, stimulate, stir, stir the blood, stir the
embers, stir the feelings, stir up, stirred up, summon up, turn on,
unblinking, understand, unnodding, unsleeping, unwinking, up, up and about, vigilant, wake, wake up, wakeful, waken, warm, warm the blood, watchful, whip up, wide awake,
wide-awake, work into, work up