Synonyms of woke

woke

verb

variants also waked

past tense of wake

1

as in awoke

to cause to stop sleeping

my banging around in the kitchen woke my wife

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• lulled
• hypnotized
• mesmerized

2

as in awakened

to cease to be asleep

I woke with a start when the door slammed

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

3

as in warned

to give notice to beforehand especially of danger or risk

a public service announcement designed to wake people to the dangers of aggressive driving

Synonyms & Similar Words

• warned
• alerted
• advised
• informed
• cautioned
• forewarned
• predicted
• notified
• prophesied
• presaged
• foretold
• admonished
• apprised
• forecast
• augured
• tipped (off)
• harbingered
• prognosticated
• foreshadowed
• portended
• boded
• foreboded
• foretokened

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• risked
• imperiled

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of woke

When Isul woke, a few hours later, Bo was struggling to stay awake in a chair next to her bed. — Min Jin Lee, New Yorker, 19 July 2026

Many Americans experienced the rise of what became known as woke politics not through government but through companies. — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 17 July 2026

This piece of Florida’s war on woke clamped down on speaking the wrong words in college and university classrooms, particularly about race and color, lest impressionable ears catch wind of an opinion not their own. — Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 10 July 2026

Everyone remembers the careers that were destroyed and the voices that were silenced by hardcore progressives in the peak woke era. — David Brooks, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026

For the next decade, thousands of Black New Yorkers woke each morning knowing the date their legal enslavement would end, but not yet living in that freedom. — Tunisia Morrison, New York Daily News, 5 July 2026

The ongoing war between woke and anti-woke factions is a fatuous melodrama best left to the satirists. — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026

Lange's husband went home and woke her up to share the good news, the lottery said. — Paloma Chavez, PEOPLE, 23 June 2026

And Axios’ sources indicated the admin simply did not like Anthropic’s woke vibe. — Tina Nguyen, The Verge, 17 June 2026