conscious
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First use appears c. 1573 in the sense of "aware of wrongdoing".https://web.archive.org/web/20220714064352/https://www.lexico.com/definition/conscious From Latin cōnscius (“conscious, conscious of guilt”), itself from con- (a form of com- (“together”)) + scīre (“to know”) + -us.
Inflected forms:
form: more conscious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most conscious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: consciouses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Alert, awake; with one's mental faculties active.
pos: adj
examples: The noise woke me, but it was another few minutes before I was fully conscious.
gloss: Aware of one's own existence; aware of one's own awareness.
pos: adj
examples: The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious.
Only highly intelligent beings can be fully conscious.
gloss: Aware of, sensitive to; observing and noticing, or being strongly interested in or concerned about.
pos: adj
examples: I was conscious of a noise behind me. a very class-conscious analysis
Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.
Once again the animals were conscious of a vague uneasiness.
Furthermore, the military operator is far less conscious of budgetary constraints than is the civilian consumer.
gloss: Deliberate, intentional, done with awareness of what one is doing.
pos: adj
examples: He candidly confesses that it is an effort to account for Joseph Smith upon some other hypothesis than that he was a conscious fraud, bent on deceiving mankind.
Start fresh, try and learn from past mistakes, make a conscious effort to be a better person.
gloss: Known or felt personally, internally by a person.
pos: adj
examples: conscious guilt
gloss: Self-conscious, or aware of wrongdoing, feeling guilty.
pos: adj
tags: rare
examples: He coloured very deeply, and giving a momentary glance at Elinor, replied, “Yes; it is my sister’s hair. The setting always casts a different shade on it, you know.” Elinor had met his eye, and looked conscious likewise..
They found Aunt Carrol with the old lady, both absorbed in some very interesting subject ; but they dropped it as the girls came in, with a conscious look which betrayed that they had been talking about their nieces.
c. 1634, John Dryden (translator), Richard Crashaw, Epigrammatum sacrorum liber
The conscious water saw its God, and blushed.
gloss: The part of the mind that is aware of itself; the consciousness.
pos: noun
Synonyms: intentional deliberate
voluntary
wilful
intentional
Antonyms: asleep
unaware
unconscious
Related words: conscience
Derived words: calorie-conscious
class conscious
class-conscious
coconscious
conscious and oriented
conscious hip hop
consciously
consciousness
conscious parallelism
conscious rap
conscious sedation
conscious uncoupling
cost-conscious
dysconscious
ecoconscious
extraconscious
fashion-conscious
foreconscious
health-conscious
hyperconscious
inconscious
metaconscious
nonconscious
overconscious
postconscious
preconscious
price-conscious
pseudoconscious
pseudo-conscious
safety-conscious
self-conscious
semiconscious
semi-conscious
subconscious
superconscious
supraconscious
unconscious
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