conscious

Speech parts

1. conscious - Noun

2. conscious - Adjective

3. conscious - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Possessing the faculty of knowing one's own thoughts or mental operations.

Possessing knowledge, whether by internal, conscious experience or by external observation; cognizant; aware; sensible.

Made the object of consciousness; known to one's self; as, conscious guilt.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

aware sensible known voluntary deliberate alert intentional awake responsive sentient observant mindful attentive watchful cognizant
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Antonyms

unconscious asleep unaware number out unacquainted
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Phrases with the word

be conscious acutely conscious eco-conscious activist conscious action conscious behavior conscious behaviour

Examples

Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. Fran Lebowitz

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge. Benjamin Disraeli

Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand. Saul Bellow

The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. Thomas Carlyle

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. African Proverb

Close letter words and terms

conscionable conscionableness conscionably conscious action conscious behavior conscious behaviour