Synonyms for conscious
- adjective
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Adjective
1. Deliberate — deliberate, intentional, done with awareness of what one is doing
deliberate, intentional, knowing, purposive, voluntary, willful US, wilful UK, intended, witting, percipient
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Definitions
- adj. 1
Deliberate, intentional, done with awareness of what one is doing.
- adj. 2
Alert, awake; with one's mental faculties active.
The noise woke me, but it was another few minutes before I was fully conscious.
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One is aware of that which exists without him; he is conscious of the inner workings of his own mind. Sensible may be used in the exact sense of conscious, or it may partake of both the senses mentioned above.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- knowing I thought that you might be interested in knowing.
- deliberate You must be deliberate in selecting a partner.
- intentional Tom suggested that what Mary did was intentional.
- purposive These studies make use of purposive sampling.
- aware Tom wasn't aware that nobody was listening to him.
- cognizant We are very cognizant of the precedent we are setting.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| conscious | rising | |
| knowing | rising | |
| deliberate | steady | |
| intentional | rising | |
| purposive | steady | |
| aware | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- aware2, awake2
- 6 letters
- wilful
- 7 letters
- knowing2, advised2, willful2, witting2
- 8 letters
- intended3, sensible3, sentient
- 9 letters
- voluntary4, cognizant3, purposive, cognisant
- 10 letters
- deliberate4, percipient4
- 11 letters
- intelligent4, intentional4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (aware2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- conscient
- Italiano
- conscio
- Español
- consciente
- Deutsch
- wissentlich