English Explanatory Dictionary

conscious

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Alert, awake; with one's mental faculties active.
  2. Aware of one's own existence; aware of one's own awareness.
  3. Aware of, sensitive to; observing and noticing, or being strongly interested in or concerned about.
  4. Deliberate, intentional, done with awareness of what one is doing.
  5. Known or felt personally, internally by a person.
  6. Self-conscious, or aware of wrongdoing, feeling guilty.
noun
  1. The part of the mind that is aware of itself; the consciousness.

Pronunciation

kŏnʹshəs /ˈkɑn.ʃəs/ /ˈkɒn.ʃəs/ /ˈkɒntʃəs/ en-us-conscious.ogg

Word forms

conscious more conscious most conscious consciouses

Etymology

First use appears c. 1573 in the sense of "aware of wrongdoing".https://web.archive.org/web/20220714064352/https://www.lexico.com/definition/conscious From Latin cōnscius (“conscious, conscious of guilt”), itself from con- (a form of com- (“together”)) + scīre (“to know”) + -us.

Synonyms

intentional deliberate voluntary wilful intentional

Antonyms

asleep unaware unconscious

Related words

conscience

Derived words

calorie-conscious class conscious class-conscious coconscious conscious and oriented conscious hip hop consciously consciousness conscious parallelism conscious rap conscious sedation conscious uncoupling cost-conscious dysconscious ecoconscious extraconscious fashion-conscious foreconscious health-conscious hyperconscious inconscious metaconscious nonconscious overconscious postconscious preconscious price-conscious pseudoconscious pseudo-conscious safety-conscious self-conscious semiconscious semi-conscious subconscious superconscious supraconscious unconscious
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