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cognizant

Syllables: cog·ni·zant/ˈkɔɡnɪzənt//ˈkɒɡnɪzənt/

cognizant adjective: aware; fully informed; having understanding of a fact.

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Adjective

cognizant (comparative more cognizant, superlative most cognizant)

  1. Aware; fully informed; having understanding of a fact.
    • The defendant is cognizant that this is a serious charge.
    • And now the memory has so far regained its dominion, that, in some measure, I am cognizant of my state.1844, Edgar Allan Poe, “The Premature Burial”, in The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, volume I, New York: J. S. Redfield, published 1850, page 336
  2. Sapient; self-aware.
    • Is the cat truly cognizant in any real way?
    • It is important to note that zombies are not cognizant life forms. As such, they cannot be deterred or reasoned with in any way. However, there are zombie-inducing forces that can be deterred form^([sic]) further action.2011 April 30, United States Strategic Command, CONPLAN 8888-11 "COUNTER-ZOMBIE DOMINANCE" (PDF), archived from the original on 15 Mar 2023, CONPLAN PHASES

cognizant meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Arabic

cognizant in Tamil

நன்கு உணர்ந்த, நன்கு அறிந்த

cognizant in Bengali

সচেতন, অবগত, কোনো বিষয়ে জ্ঞান থাকা

cognizant in Malayalam

aware, mindful of, conscious of
അറിവുള്ള, അറിയാവുന്ന, ജാഗ്രതയുള്ള, ഉണർവ്വുള്ള, ബോധമുള്ള, അറിയുന്ന

cognizant in Arabic

aware
مُدْرِك mudrik

Examples of cognizant in a sentence

  • He was equally cognizant of the "ludic" (playful) component in the rituals of archaic societies.
  • Even jailers, although they tend to make prison life their central concern, are cognizant that they will return to the outside community.
  • Among themselves they communicate by means of what Perry says must be a sixth sense which is cognizant of a fourth dimension.

All 10 example sentences with cognizant

Antonyms of cognizant

Forms of cognizant

comparativemore cognizant
superlativemost cognizant
alternative formcognisant

Origin of cognizant

A new formation from cognizance + -ant; first attested in the 19th century. Compare Old French conoissant (present participle of conoistre; modern French connaissant), from Latin cognōscentem (accusative singular present participle of cōgnōscō).

Words formed from cognizant

Questions about cognizant

What does cognizant mean?
Cognizant means aware; fully informed; having understanding of a fact.
What is cognizant in Tamil?
Cognizant in Tamil is நன்கு உணர்ந்த, நன்கு அறிந்த. See Cognizant meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cognizant?
Cognizant is an adjective.
How do you pronounce cognizant?
Cognizant is pronounced /ˈkɒɡnɪzənt/ (UK).

Words near cognizant in the dictionary

  1. cognizable offences
  2. cognizableness
  3. cognizably
  4. cognizance
  5. cognizances
  6. cognizant
  7. cognizantly
  8. cognization
  9. cognizaunce
  10. cognizaunces
  11. cognize

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cognizant (page history and authors); cognizant (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cognizant (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cognizant (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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