awake
/əˈweɪk/
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Canada/əˈweːk/
awake adjective: not asleep; conscious.
Adjective
awake (comparative more awake, superlative most awake)
- Not asleep; conscious.
- By quarter to six all this had me so awake and agitated that even the Balinese wind chimes that I hung up in the garden to relax me began to sound like Big Ben.2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 86
- Synonyms:
- conscious, lucid, wide awake
- Alert, aware.
- They were awake to the possibility of a decline in sales.
- The Baker was a two-handed hitter, and seemed perfectly awake to the business before him.1845, The Sportsman's Magazine of Life in London and the Country, page 355
- Synonyms:
- wary, woke, alert, aware, heedful, hip, observant, on guard, on the lookout, on the watch
Verb
awake (third-person singular simple present awakes, present participle awaking, simple past awoke or (rare) awaked, past participle awoken or (rare) awaked or (rare) awoke or (rare) awaken)
- To become conscious after having slept.
- Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night,
Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:
And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
The Sultán's Turret in a Noose of light.1859, Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia, page 1
- Antonyms:
- fall asleep, crash out, doze off, drift off, drop off, get off, go night-night, go to sleep, nod off, nod out
- Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night,
- To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.
- Thenne she called the heremyte syre Vlfyn I am a gentylwoman that wold speke with the knyght whiche is with yow / Thenne the good man awaked Galahad / & badde hym aryse and speke with a gentylwoman that semeth hath grete nede of yow / Thenne Galahad wente to her & asked her what she wold1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “primum”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVII
- [This ant] I ſuffered to lye above an hour in the Spirit; and after I had taken it out, and put its body and legs into a natural poſture, remained moveleſs about an hour; but then , upon a ſudden, as if it had been awaken out of a drunken ſleep, it ſuddenly reviv'd and ran away...1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia
- Antonyms:
- put to sleep
- To make aware of something.
- To excite or to stir up something latent.
- To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.
- To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.
- The national spirit again awoke.1867-1879, Edward Augustus Freeman, The History of the Norman Conquest of England
- Awake to righteousness, and sin not.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 15:34
- Used in a phrasal verb: to awake to (“to become awake of something and its possibile effects or results.”).
- It took her some time to awake to the dangers of her situation.
- Used in a phrasal verb: to awake to (“to be roused from one's sleep, due to a noise or other stimulus.”).
- this morning, I awoke to the sound of my neighbor's barking dog.
awake meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
awake in Hindi
- conscious
- सजग sajag
- alert, aware
- सजग sajag, सतर्क satark
- to gain consciousness
- जागना jāgnā
- to cause someone to stop sleeping
- जगाना jagānā
awake in Tamil
- உறக்கத்தினின்று எழுப்பு, எழு, சோம்பலொழி, விழிப்புடன்
awake in Marathi
- conscious
- जागा jāgā, जागे jāge, जागी jāgī
- alert, aware
- जागृत jāgŕt
- to gain consciousness
- जागे होणे jāge hoṇe
- to cause someone to stop sleeping
- जागवणे jāgavṇe
awake in Urdu
- conscious
- بیدار bedār
- to gain consciousness
- جگنا jagnā
More languagesFewer languages
- awake in Bengali
- জাগা jaga
- awake in Telugu
- మేలుకునియుండు mēlukuniyuṇḍu
- awake in Malayalam
- ഉണരുക uṇaruka, എഴുന്നേൽക്കുക eḻunnēlkkuka, ഉണർത്തുക uṇaṟttuka
- awake in Kannada
- ಎಚ್ಚರಗೊಳ್ಳು, ಎಚ್ಚಱ್, ಎೞ್ಚಱ್
- awake in Odia
- ଉଠାଇବା uṭhāibā
- awake in Sanskrit
- बुद्ध buddhá, जागृ jāgṛ
- awake in Assamese
- সাৰ পোৱা xar püa, জগোৱা zogüa
- awake in Tagalog
- gising
- awake in Arabic
- يَقِظ yaqiẓ, مُتَنَبِّه mutanabbih, صَحَى ṣaḥā, اِسْتَيَقَظَ istayaqaẓa
- awake in Indonesian
- bangun, terjaga, tidak tidur, membangunkan
- awake in Persian
- بیدار bidâr, بیدار شدن bidâr šodan
- awake in Vietnamese
- thức, thức dậy, dậy lên, dậy
Examples of awake in a sentence
- It's too early for this sort of thing. I'm not awake yet.
- The man in the next bunk kept me awake all night with his snoring.
- He awoke at the crack of dawn, as was his wont.
Synonyms of awake
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Antonyms
- asleep
- unconscious
- cold
- comatose
- dead to the world
- dormant
- down for the count
- in the arms of Morpheus
- in the arms of Murphy
- out cold
10 more antonymsFewer antonyms
Forms of awake
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more awake |
| superlative | most awake |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | awakes |
| present participle | awaking |
| past | awoke |
| past participle | awoken |
| past (rare) | awaked |
| past participle (rare) | awaked |
| past participle (rare) | awoke |
| past participle (rare) | awaken |
Origin of awake
From Middle English awake, a shortened form of awaken (“awakened, awake”), past participle of Middle English awaken (“to awaken”). See verb below. Compare Saterland Frisian woak (“awake”), German Low German waak (“awake”), German wach (“awake”).
From Middle English awaken and awakien, from Old English āwacan and āwacian. By surface analysis, a- + wake.
Words formed from awake
Phrases with awake
Words that rhyme with awake
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- slake
- stake
- wake
- sheikh
- strake
- betake
- mosaic
- blake
- fake
- jake
- opaque
- forsake
- lake
- mistake
- raik
- retake
- sake
- claik
- hake
- partake
- quake
- Spirit Lake
- steak
- ache
- remake
- spake
- tea break
- wrake
- ake
- alphamosaic
- ashake
- Choctaw Lake
- crake
- Deer Lake
- demake
- eastern green drake
- glass snake
- laik
- moonquake
- Mud Lake
- nake
- overtake
- parliament cake
- prison break
- radiopaque
- rattlesnake
- reshake
- sodaic
Questions about awake
- What does awake mean?
- Awake means not asleep; conscious.
- What is awake in Hindi?
- Awake in Hindi is सजग (sajag), सतर्क (satark), जागना (jāgnā). See Awake meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is awake?
- Awake can be an adjective or a verb.
- How do you pronounce awake?
- Awake is pronounced /əˈweɪk/.
Words near awake in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: awake (page history and authors); awake (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); awake (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ଉଠାଇବା (Odia) (page history and authors); जागृ (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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