awake

adjective more awake · most awake

1. not comparable, predicative Not asleep; conscious. By quarter to six all this had me so awake and agitated that even the Balinese wind chimes that I hung up in the garden to relax me began to sound like Big Ben.
2. broadly, figuratively, predicative Alert, aware. They were awake to the possibility of a decline in sales.

Similar: alert, awake, caffeinated, conscious, invigorated, invigorating, lively, wakeful, wakesome, woke

verb awakes · awaking · awoke · awaked · awoken

1. intransitive, predicative To become conscious after having slept. Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night, Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught The Sultán's Turret in a Noose of light.
2. predicative, transitive To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping. Thenne she called the heremyte syre Vlfyn I am a gentylwoman that wold speke with the knyght whiche is with yow / Thenne the good man awaked Galahad / & badde hym aryse and speke with a gentylwoman that semeth hath grete nede of yow / Thenne Galahad wente to her & asked her what she wold
3. predicative, transitive To make aware of something.
4. predicative, transitive To excite or to stir up something latent.
5. figuratively, predicative, transitive To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.
6. figuratively, intransitive, predicative To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy. 1867-1879, Edward Augustus Freeman, The History of the Norman Conquest of England The national spirit again awoke.
7. predicative Used in a phrasal verb: to awake to (“to become awake of something and its possibile effects or results.”). It took her some time to awake to the dangers of her situation.
8. predicative Used in a phrasal verb: to awake to (“to be roused from one's sleep, due to a noise or other stimulus.”). this morning, I awoke to the sound of my neighbor's barking dog.