English Explanatory Dictionary

awake

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Not asleep; conscious.
  2. Alert, aware.
verb
  1. To become conscious after having slept.
  2. To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.
  3. To make aware of something.
  4. To excite or to stir up something latent.
  5. To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.
  6. To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.

Pronunciation

/əˈweɪk/ /əˈweːk/ [əˈweːk] [əˈwɛːk] en-us-awake.ogg

Word forms

awake awakes awaking awoke awaked awoken awaken

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ud-s-? Proto-Indo-European *h₂u-s-? Proto-Germanic *uz- Proto-West Germanic *uʀ- Old English ar- Old English ā- Proto-Indo-European *weǵ-der. Proto-Germanic *wakaną Proto-West Germanic *wakan Old English wacan Old English āwacan Middle English awaken Middle English awake English awake 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”).

Synonyms

alert awake caffeinated conscious invigorated invigorating lively wakeful wakesome woke lucid wide awake wary aware heedful hip observant on guard on the lookout on the watch on watch vigilant watchful awaken wake up abraid arise arouse get up rise rouse stir wake waken bring round cry knock up roust uprouse

Antonyms

asleep unconscious cold comatose dead to the world dormant down for the count in the arms of Morpheus in the arms of Murphy nangry out cold out like a light sacked out sleepbound sleeping somnambular unawakening unawaking unwaking heedless oblivious fall asleep crash out doze off drift off drop off get off go night-night go to sleep nod off nod out sack out zone put to sleep

Related words

bright-eyed and bushy-tailed up and at 'em vigilant wake wakefulness awake to awaken wake up woke

Derived words

awakeness be awake broad awake half-awake nonawake unawake wide-awake wideawake awakable awaker reawake
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