ROUSTED Synonyms: 51 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in awakened

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rousted

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verb

past tense of roust

as in woke

to force (someone or something) to move from a place The soldiers were rousted from their beds before sunrise.

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Adjective

There’s a flash of light, and a wind blows over the stunned, awakened audience.

— Jake Lundberg, The Atlantic, 3 Sep. 2026
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

Definition of awakened

Verb

In the middle of the night, as the floodwaters were rising, the dog woke her by shaking water off herself, giving the family enough time to climb a ladder onto the roof of their home just minutes before it was completely flooded.

— Fabiola Sanchez, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2026
Above-average rainfall in June and August, along with several cold fronts sweeping across the region, woke the seeds from a lengthy slumber to transform the landscape.

— Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of woke

Adjective

That might mean more scans, more biopsies, more waiting rooms, more sleepless nights wondering if your body has somehow betrayed you.

— Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2026
There were certainly plenty of long days and sleepless nights along the way, but seeing the finished space and what it has become made all of that hard work worthwhile.

— Blaine Callahan, Hartford Courant, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of sleepless

Adjective

Rock band Green Day once asked to be woken up when September ends, but with the developments in the AI world and markets keeping a close eye on Treasury yields, investors probably won’t need much help keeping awake this year.

— Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2026
What followed was an awake brain surgery, 33 rounds of proton radiation, chemotherapy, medications, scans, bloodwork, and a new, unrelenting relationship with my body and mind.

— Stefanie Benjamin, Travel + Leisure, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of awake

Adjective

In a previous university blog post, Majumdar compared this finding to the brain flushing out byproducts that build up during active, wakeful moments, allowing for a more restful night’s sleep.

— Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 9 Sep. 2026
Low to medium doses show a reduction in the alpha frequency of brain waves (which correspond to relaxed and wakeful states), along with rising entropy, a signature finding of sober brains sinking deeper into a trip.

— Oshan Jarow, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024

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