awake
stop sleeping (Freq. 7)
- She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock
• Syn:
wake up, arouse, awaken, wake, come alive, waken
• Ant:
fall asleep (for: wake up)
• Derivationally related forms:
wakening (for: waken), waker (for: wake), awakening (for: awaken), arousal (for: arouse)
• Hypernyms:
change state, turn
• Entailment:
sleep, kip, slumber, log Z's, catch some Z's
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
1. not in a state of sleep;
completely conscious (Freq. 9)
- lay awake thinking about his new job
- still not fully awake
• Ant:
asleep
• Similar to:
astir, up, awakened, insomniac, sleepless,
watchful, unsleeping, wide-awake, waking, wakeful
• See Also:
alert, watchful, aware, cognizant, cognisant, conscious
2. mentally perceptive and responsive
- an alert mind
- alert to the problems
- alive to what is going on
- awake to the dangers of her situation
- was now awake to the reality of his predicament
• Syn:
alert, alive
• Similar to:
aware, cognizant, cognisant
• Derivationally related forms:
aliveness (for: alive), alertness (for: alert)
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