awake

/əˈweɪk/

/əˈweɪk/

Other forms: awoke; awaking; awakes; awaked; awoken

When you're awake, you're conscious and aware of your surroundings. When you're not awake, you're asleep. If you are reading this, you are indeed awake.

Most people are awake during the day and asleep at night, but if you work the night shift or suffer from insomnia, you might also be awake at night. When awake is used as a verb, it means "wake up:" "I watched my kitten awake from a deep sleep and yawn." Awake comes from two Old English roots, āwæcnan, "to arise," and āwacian, "to revive."

Definitions of awake

1. adjective

   not in a state of sleep; completely conscious
   “lay awake thinking about his new job”

   “still not fully awake”

   synonyms:

   alert, watchful

   engaged in or accustomed to close observation

   astir, up

   out of bed

   awakened

   (somewhat formal) having been waked up

   insomniac, sleepless, watchful

   experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness

   unsleeping, wide-awake

   fully awake

   wakeful, waking

   marked by full consciousness or alertness

   aware, cognisant, cognizant

   having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception (sometimes followed by 'of')

   conscious

   knowing and perceiving; having awareness of surroundings and sensations and thoughts

   antonyms:

   asleep

   in a state of sleep

   at rest

   in a state of repose or especially sleep

   dormant, hibernating, torpid

   in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation

   dozy, drowsing, drowsy

   half asleep

   fast asleep, sound asleep

   sleeping deeply

   hypnoid

   of or relating to a state of sleep or hypnosis

   sleepy, sleepy-eyed, sleepyheaded

   ready to fall asleep

   slumberous, slumbery, slumbrous, somnolent

   inclined to or marked by drowsiness

   unawakened

   still asleep

   incognizant, unaware

   (often followed by `of') not aware

   unconscious

   not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead
2. adjective

   mentally perceptive and responsive;"an alert mind"
   “awake to the dangers of her situation”

   “was now awake to the reality of his predicament”

   synonyms: alert, alive

   aware, cognisant, cognizant

   having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception (sometimes followed by 'of')
3. verb

   stop sleeping
   synonyms: arouse, awaken, come alive, wake, wake up, waken

   type of:

   change state, turn

   undergo a transformation or a change of position or action