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| Main Entry: | conscious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | alert, awake |
| Synonyms: | acquainted, aesthetic, assured, attentive, au courant, aware, certain, cognizant, conversant, discerning, informed, keen, knowing, known, mindful, noticing, noting, observing, perceiving, responsive, seeing, sensible, sentient, sure, understanding, vigilant, watchful, with it*, able to recognize, alive to, apperceptive, apprised, felt, hep to, in on, in right mind, on to, percipient, recognizing, remarking, sensitive to, supraliminal, wise to, witting |
| Notes: | conscience is the noun meaning 'a sense of right and wrong' while conscious is the adjective meaning 'aware of something, being awake' |
| Antonyms: | ignorant, impassive, indifferent, senseless, unaware, unconscious, unmindful, unresponsive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | conscious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intentional |
| Synonyms: | affected, calculated, deliberate, knowing, mannered, premeditated, rational, reasoning, reflective, responsible, self-conscious, studied, willful |
| Antonyms: | indifferent, unconscious, unfeeling, unintentional, unstudied, not deliberate |
| Main Entry: | aware |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | knowledgeable |
| Synonyms: | acquainted, alert, alive, appraised, appreciative, apprehensive, apprised, attentive, au courant, awake, cognizant, conscious, cool*, enlightened, familiar, go-go, groovy*, grounded, heedful, hip*, in the know, in the picture, informed, into*, know the score, know what's what, know-how, knowing, latched on, mindful, on the beam, on to, perceptive, plugged in, receptive, savvy, sensible, sentient, sharp, tuned in, up on, wise, wise to, wised up, with it* |
| Antonyms: | ignorant, insensitive, unaware, unconscious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cognizant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | aware |
| Synonyms: | acquainted, alive, apprehensive, au courant, awake, conscious, conversant, familiar, hip to, informed, judicious, knowing, knowledgeable, observant, perceptive, savvy, sensible, sentient, versed, with it*, down with, grounded, hep to, in on, in the know, in the picture, on the beam, on to, plugged in, tuned in, up on, wise to, witting |
| Antonyms: | ignorant, unaware, unfamiliar, uninformed, unwitting, unknowledgeable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | conversant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | experienced, familiar with |
| Synonyms: | abreast, acquainted, alive, apprehensive, au courant, au fait, aware, cognizant, conscious, cool*, hip*, informed, into, knowing, knowledgeable, learned, perceptive, practiced, proficient, sensible, sentient, skilled, up*, up-to-date, versed, well-informed, comprehending, down with, hep, kept posted, on the beam, percipient, plugged in, versant, witting |
| Antonyms: | ignorant, inexperienced, quiet, silent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deliberate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intentional |
| Synonyms: | advised, calculated, careful, cautious, cold-blooded, conscious, considered, cut-and-dried*, express, fixed, intended, meticulous, planned, predetermined, premeditated, provident, prudent, purposeful, scrupulous, studied, studious, thoughtful, voluntary, wary, willful, aforethought, designed, designful, done on purpose, judged, pondered, prearranged, predesigned, predeterminate, prepense, projected, purposed, purposive, reasoned, resolved, schemed, thought out, weighed, with forethought, witting |
| Antonyms: | chance, indeterminate, unintentional, unwitting, unmethodical, unsystematic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | insightful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | perceptive |
| Synonyms: | alert, astute, awake, aware, brainy, conscious, cute, discerning, ear to the ground, intelligent, intuitive, keen, knowing, knowledgeable, knows what's what, observant, penetrating, penetrative, quick, responsive, savvy, sensitive, sharp, shrewd, smart, tuned in, understanding, wise |
| Main Entry: | knowing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | experienced, aware |
| Synonyms: | alive, apprehensive, astute, awake, brainy, bright, brilliant, canny, clever, cognizant, competent, conscious, conversant, cool*, crack*, deliberate, discerning, expert, insightful, intelligent, intended, intentional, judicious, knowledgeable, observant, perceptive, qualified, quick, quick-witted, sagacious, sage, sensible, sentient, sharp, skillful, slick*, smart, sophisticated, vigilant, watchful, well-informed, wise, worldly, worldly-wise, percipient, sophic, tuned-in, with-it, witting |
| Antonyms: | inexperienced, unaware, unknowing, uncognizant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | knowledgeable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | aware, educated |
| Synonyms: | abreast, acquainted, alert, appreciative, au courant, au fait, brainy*, bright, brilliant, clever, cognizant, conscious, conversant, discerning, erudite, experienced, familiar, informed, insightful, intelligent, knowing, learned, lettered, omniscient, perceptive, prescient, privy, quick-witted, sagacious, sage, savvy, scholarly, sensible, sharp, smart, sophisticated, understanding, versed, well-informed, well-rounded, wise, apprised, in the know, plugged in, posted, sophic, tuned-in, with-it |
| Antonyms: | ignorant, unaware, uneducated, uninformed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | known |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | famous, popular |
| Synonyms: | accepted, acknowledged, avowed, celebrated, common, conscious, established, familiar, hackneyed, manifest, noted, notorious, obvious, patent, plain, proverbial, published, received, recognized, well-known, admitted, certified, confessed, down pat |
| Antonyms: | obscure, unknown |
| Main Entry: | mannered |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | affected, put-on |
| Synonyms: | apish*, artificial, chichi*, conscious, posed, pretentious, self-conscious, stilted, unnatural, airish, artsy, campy, gone Hollywood, highfaluting*, stuck up |
| Antonyms: | natural, unpretentious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mindful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | attentive, aware |
| Synonyms: | alert, alive to, apprehensive, au courant, be up on, cagey, careful, cautious, chary, cognizant, conscientious, conscious, conversant, heedful, in the know, know all the answers, know ins and outs, knowing, knowledgeable, observant, observative, observing, on one's toes, on the ball*, on the job, on to, plugged in, regardful, respectful, sensible, solicitous, thoughtful, tuned in, vigilant, wary, watchful, with eyes peeled |
| Antonyms: | absent-minded, careless, heedless, inattentive, unaware |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | perceptive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | alert, sensitive |
| Synonyms: | acute, astute, awake, aware, brainy*, conscious, discerning, discreet, ear to the ground, gnostic, incisive, insighted, insightful, intuitive, judicious, keen, knowing, knowledgeable, knows what's what, observant, penetrating, penetrative, percipient, perspicacious, quick, rational, responsive, sagacious, sage, savvy*, sharp, sophic, tuned in, wise, wise to |
| Antonyms: | dense, insensitive, unaware, unobservant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | premeditated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | planned, intended |
| Synonyms: | advised, calculated, conscious, considered, contrived, deliberate, fixed, intentional, studied, willful, aforethought, designed, framed up, laid-out, prepense, purposed, rigged, set-up, sewn-up, stacked deck, thought-out |
| Antonyms: | accidental, casual, spontaneous |
| Main Entry: | responsive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | quick to react |
| Synonyms: | active, alive, awake, aware, compassionate, conscious, forthcoming, impressionable, kindhearted, open, passionate, perceptive, persuadable, receptive, sensible, sensitive, sentient, sharp, softhearted, susceptible, sympathetic, tender, warm, warmhearted, acknowledging, answering, influenceable, reactive, replying, respondent, sensile, susceptive |
| Antonyms: | insensitive, unresponsive, unsusceptible |
| Main Entry: | sensible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | realistic, reasonable |
| Synonyms: | all there, astute, attentive, au courant, aware, canny, cognizant, commonsensical, conscious, consequent, conversant, cool*, discerning, discreet, discriminating, down-to-earth, far-sighted, having all one's marbles, in right mind, informed, intelligent, judicious, knowing, logical, matter-of-fact, practical, prudent, rational, sagacious, sage, sane, sentient, shrewd, sober, sound, together, well-reasoned, well-thought-out, wise, witting |
| Antonyms: | indiscreet, senseless, unrealistic, unreasonable, unwise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | studied |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intentional |
| Synonyms: | advised, affected, calculated, conscious, considered, deliberate, examined, investigated, planned, premeditated, prepared, purposeful, reviewed, studious, thoughtful, voluntary, willful, willing, aforethought, designed, gone into, plotted, prepense, thought-about, thought-out, thought-through, well-considered |
| Antonyms: | natural, spontaneous, unintentional, unplanned |
| Main Entry: | with it |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cognizant; stylish |
| Synonyms: | alive, apprehensive, au courant, awake, aware, chic, conscious, cool*, familiar, groovy*, hip to, in vogue, informed, knowing, knowledgeable, latest, mod*, now*, observant, perceptive, savvy, trendy, versed, hep to, in, in fashion, in on, in the know, on to, plugged in, switched on, tuned in, turned on, up on, wise to |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | perceiving |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | alert |
| Synonyms: | attentive, aware, cognizant, conscious, observing, sensitive |
| Main Entry: | seeing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | observing |
| Synonyms: | alert, awake, aware, conscious, noticing, observant, perceiving, regarding, inspecting, looking, looking at, surveying, viewing, witnessing |
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