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Definition of CONSCIOUS

1

having specified facts or feelings actively impressed on the mind <conscious of the fact that my hands were sweating the whole time that I was making my presentation>

Synonyms alive, apprehensive, aware, cognizant, mindful, sensible, sentient, ware, witting

Related Words alert, attentive, careful, cautious, heedful, observant, open-eyed, regardful, safe, vigilant, wary, watchful, wide-awake; hyperaware, hyperconscious

Near Antonyms careless, heedless, inattentive, incautious, mindless, unguarded, unheeding, unwary

Antonyms insensible, oblivious, unaware, unconscious, unmindful, unwitting

2

made, given, or done with full awareness of what one is doing <a conscious effort to instill discord in the family>

Synonyms conscious, deliberate, intended, knowing, purposeful, purposive, set, voluntary, willed, willful (or wilful), witting

Related Words designed, planned; conscious; advised, calculated, considered, measured, reasoned, studied, thoughtful, weighed; premeditated, premeditative, prepense; discretionary, elective, optional, volunteer

Near Antonyms inadvertent, unwitting; accidental, chance, haphazard, hit-or-miss, incidental, random; aimless, desultory, purposeless; abrupt, impetuous, sudden; coerced, forced, involuntary; compulsory, mandatory, necessary, nonelective, obligatory, ordered, required; casual; extemporaneous, impromptu, impulsive, instinctive, spontaneous, unforced, unpremeditated

Antonyms nondeliberate, nonpurposive, unintentional