Synonyms of awakened

awakened 1 of 2

adjective

as in roused

Related Words

• roused
• wakened
• aroused
• awake
• wakeful
• sleepless
• rousted
• wide-awake
• insomniac
• aware
• about
• revived
• conscious
• astir
• reawakened
• up

Dissimilar Words

• sleeping
• dormant
• asleep
• unawakened
• resting
• drowsy
• sleepy
• nodding
• somnolent
• slumbering
• dreaming
• slumberous
• napping
• dozing
• dozy
• hypnotized
• mesmerized

awakened

2 of 2

verb

past tense of awaken

1

as in woke

to cause to stop sleeping

be quiet or you'll awaken the kids

Synonyms & Similar Words

• woke
• awoke
• roused
• wakened
• aroused
• knocked up
• revived
• reawakened
• stirred
• raised
• disturbed
• rousted
• routed
• stimulated
• provoked
• excited
• agitated
• bestirred
• rewaked

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• lulled
• hypnotized
• mesmerized

2

as in awoke

to cease to be asleep

guests at the B and B usually awaken to the smell of fresh pancakes

Synonyms & Similar Words

• awoke
• woke
• roused
• wakened
• aroused
• rose
• watched
• arose
• reawakened
• rolled out
• revived
• turned out
• got up
• stirred
• uprose
• rewaked
• shifted

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• slept
• nodded
• rested
• dozed
• slumbered
• dropped off
• retired
• napped
• snoozed
• turned in
• conked (off or out)
• couched
• bedded (down)
• flopped
• slept in
• catnapped
• lay up
• sacked out
• overslept
• kipped (down)
• dossed (down)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of awakened

Adjective

Angine desperately returns to the store, again and again, to get her fix from Malaise, her face reddening from blood just below the surface, a canvas of her awakened desire. — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2025

Verb

Loud thunderclaps awakened residents, lightning sparked small fires and power outages and rainfall slowed the morning commute. — Tevian Whitehurst, AZCentral.com, 28 July 2026

And apparently anyone did because later that night I was awakened by hostile yelling from the corridor just outside my room. — Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026

Spencer’s teenage son was awakened in the night in 1992 to find his father beating his mother in the head with a brick, according to court documents. — Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 24 June 2026

Neighbor Daleon Walker says he was awakened by the sound of gunfire. — Hannah McIlree, CBS News, 23 June 2026

However, Kalwinski has awakened me to the fact that such civic pride can apply just as much to the Bears being in Hammond as being in Arlington Heights. — Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2026

Wyck, of course, is right about the island being awakened, and Tom has unwittingly invited in dozens of potential victims. — Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 18 June 2026

Daniela López stars in the film as Julia, an introverted music student whose curiosity and passion for protest is awakened amid a growing feminist movement on her university campus, and with #MeToo as a backdrop. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 June 2026

Some were awakened by explosions; others pulled back their curtains in the early hours to see plumes of black smoke rising above the city. — David Hickey, NBC news, 4 June 2026