awake

Meaning

Adj

1. Not asleep; conscious.
2. Alert, aware.

Verb

1. To become conscious after having slept.
2. To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.
3. 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia
4. 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia:
   [This ant] I ſuffered to lye above an hour in the Spirit; and after I had taken it out, and put its body and legs into a natural poſture, remained moveleſs about an hour; but then , upon a ſudden, as if it had been awaken out of a drunken ſleep, it ſuddenly reviv'd and ran away...
5. To make aware of something.
6. To excite or to stir up something latent.
7. To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.
8. To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.

Synonyms

wake up

wake

alert

awaken

waken

arouse

rouse

watchful

conscious

sleepless

wakeful

vigilant

rise from sleep

arise

waking

come alive

alive

open-eyed

awakened

not sleeping

aware

be awake

lively

clever

argus-eyed

wide-awake

up and about

smart

get up

stay awake

merry

observant

parlous

politic

realize

recollect

revive

rise

rose

🌹

roused

sharp

sharp-witted

sit up

sober

spiffy

stand

stand up

start

stay

unsleeping

up

🆙

uprise

waking up

watchdog

be alert

be refreshed

be revived

close eyes

keep awake

see well

become sober

open one’s eyes

recover consciousness

be awakened

consious

be cheered

active

be fully awake

appearance

aroused

attentive

awakening

be conscious

blithe

brainy

brisk

cagey

cagy

call

calm

canny

character

cheerful

cheer up

clear-headed

cool-headed

cute

disillusion

hardheaded

heads-up

heedful

ingenious

intelligent

knock up

knowing

lidless

lusty

Pronounced as (IPA)

/əˈweɪk/

Etymology

From Middle English awake, a shortened form of awaken (“awakened, awake”), past participle of Middle English awaken (“to awaken”). See verb below. Compare Saterland Frisian woak (“awake”), German Low German waak (“awake”), German wach (“awake”).