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conscious

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms 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 of conscious

alive, apprehensive, aware, cognizant, mindful, sensible, sentient, ware, witting
Words Related to conscious

alert, attentive, careful, cautious, heedful, observant, open-eyed, regardful, safe, vigilant, wary, watchful, wide-awake

hyperaware, hyperconscious
Near Antonyms of conscious

careless, heedless, inattentive, incautious, mindless, unguarded, unheeding, unwary
Antonyms of conscious

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 of conscious

deliberate, intended, intentional, knowing, purposeful, purposive, set, voluntary, willed, willful (or wilful), witting
Words Related to conscious

designed, planned

conscious

advised, calculated, considered, measured, reasoned, studied, thoughtful, weighed

premeditated, premeditative, prepense

discretionary, elective, optional, volunteer
Near Antonyms of conscious

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 of conscious

nondeliberate, nonpurposive, unintentional

Synonym Discussion of conscious

aware, cognizant, conscious, sensible, alive, awake mean having knowledge of something. aware implies vigilance in observing or alertness in drawing inferences from what one experiences.
    • aware of changes in climate
cognizant implies having special or certain knowledge as from firsthand sources.
    • not fully cognizant of the facts
conscious implies that one is focusing one's attention on something or is even preoccupied by it.
    • conscious that my heart was pounding
sensible implies direct or intuitive perceiving especially of intangibles or of emotional states or qualities.
    • sensible of a teacher's influence
alive adds to sensible the implication of acute sensitivity to something.
    • alive to the thrill of danger
awake implies that one has become alive to something and is on the alert.
    • a country always awake to the threat of invasion

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