Conscious
['kɒnʃəs] or ['kɑnʃəs]
Definition
(adj.) knowing and perceiving; having awareness of surroundings and sensations and thoughts; 'remained conscious during the operation'; 'conscious of his faults'; 'became conscious that he was being followed' .
(adj.) intentionally conceived; 'a conscious effort to speak more slowly'; 'a conscious policy' .
(adj.) (followed by `of') showing realization or recognition of something; 'few voters seem conscious of the issue's importance'; 'conscious of having succeeded'; 'the careful tread of one conscious of his alcoholic load'- Thomas Hardy .
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Definition
(a.) Possessing the faculty of knowing one's own thoughts or mental operations.
(a.) Possessing knowledge, whether by internal, conscious experience or by external observation; cognizant; aware; sensible.
(a.) Made the object of consciousness; known to one's self; as, conscious guilt.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Knowing, thinking, reflecting.[2]. Apprised, sensible, aware, cognisant.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Aware, cognizant, sensible
ANT:Unaware, unconscious, insensible
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Definition
adj. having the feeling or internal knowledge of something: aware: having the faculty of consciousness.—adv. Con′sciously.—n. Con′sciousness the waking state of the mind: the knowledge which the mind has of its own acts and feelings: thought.
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Examples
- These men are not conscious hypocrites. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- As I drew her down into her chair, I was conscious of a scent that I knew, and turning, saw my guardian in the room. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- They teach at one time that men act from class interests: but they devote an enormous amount of energy to making men conscious of their class. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Our conscious thoughts, observations, wishes, aversions are important, because they represent inchoate, nascent activities. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Life, through mankind, grew thereafter more and more distinctly conscious of itself and its world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is suggestive that among the Greeks, till the rise of conscious philosophy, the same word, techne, was used for art and science. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He was not a Plato or an Archimedes, but an efficient officer o f State, conscious of indebtedness to the great scientists and philosophers. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- We were apart as when some one comes into a room and people are self-conscious. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- There were even moments when she was conscious of having to pay her way. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The heralds of this gospel were acutely conscious of the evils of the social estate in which they found themselves. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He rather liked him for it; and he was conscious of his own irritability of temper at the time, which probably made them both quits. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Oh, yes,' replied Mr. Tupman, with conscious pride. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He was conscious that Madame Olenska was looking at him under lowered lids. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- He was acutely conscious that this was an enterprise too great for any one man, and he used his utmos t endeavors to induce James I to become the patron of the plan. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- She knows just enough about it to be conscious of her own sad defects. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I was conscious of an impropriety in my disputing with a military man in matters of his profession, and said no more. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- He needs to be made conscious of consequences as a justification of the positive or negative value of certain objects. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- If he had meant any harm by it or was conscious of any harm in it, he wouldn't tell it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Pardon me, sir,' returned Mrs Wilfer, correcting him, 'it is the abode of conscious though independent Poverty. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- As the concentrated expression returned to his forehead, he seemed to become conscious that it was in hers too. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- If Machiavelli is a symbol of the political theorist making reason an instrument of purpose, we may take Sorel as a self-conscious representative of the impulses which generate purpose. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The truth is that she was conscious of a somewhat keen shock of disappointment. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Genius is said to be self-conscious. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- You were as conscious as heart could desire. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- And now she was very conscious that she ought to have prevented them. Jane Austen. Emma.
- There may have intervened a considerable period of t ime free from conscious effort on the special question involved in the discovery. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The gentleman replied, in a hurried manner, that he was not conscious of having done so, and begged her to proceed. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- As I did the other day, said Elizabeth with a conscious smile: very true, it will be wise in me to refrain from _that_. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- He did not do much, but he thought a great deal and was conscious of a change of some sort going on in spite of himself. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The blood-flowing had made Margaret conscious--dimly, vaguely conscious. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
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