consciousadjective
uk/ˈkɒn.ʃəs/us/ˈkɑːn.ʃəs/conscious adjective (NOTICING)
be conscious of sth/sb
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- He is elegant, sensual, conscious of his body.
- Our subconscious mind registers things which our conscious mind is not aware of.
- When a hypnotist puts you in a trance, you no longer have conscious control of yourself.
- He was conscious of a presence behind him.
- She was conscious of the fact that everyone was staring at her.
B2 to notice that a particular thing or person exists or is present:
My tooth doesn't exactly hurt, but I'm conscious of it (= I can feel it) all the time.
[ + -ing verb ] I think she's very conscious of being the only person in the office who didn't have a university education.
[ + that ] He gradually became conscious (of the fact) that everyone else was wearing a suit.
See also
subconscious
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Aware
- abreast
- acquainted
- alive
- alive to sth idiom
- au fait
- awake
- awakening
- be no stranger to sth idiom
- familiar
- genned up
- have/keep your finger on the pulse idiom
- informed
- insider
- ivory tower
- onto
- preliterate
- privy
- put sb in the picture idiom
- repository
- sad
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conscious adjective (AWAKE)
C1 awake, thinking, and knowing what is happening around you:
He's still conscious but he's very badly injured.
She's out of the operating theatre, but she's not fully conscious yet.
figurative humorous "Can I speak to Isobel, please?" "She's still in bed. I'll go and see if she's conscious (= awake) yet."
Opposite
unconscious
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Animal physiology: not sleeping & not unconscious
- awoke
- be in the land of the living idiom
- come round
- consciousness
- insomniac
- keep sb up
- knock
- land
- morning person
- not sleep a wink idiom
- rise and shine! idiom
- sit up
- stay
- stir
- toss
- wait up
- wake (sb) up
- waking
- woke
- woken
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conscious adjective (INTENTIONAL)
C2 determined and intentional:
He's obviously making a conscious effort to be nice to me at the moment.
It wasn't a conscious decision to lose weight. It just happened.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Planning, expecting and arranging
- accidentally
- accidentally on purpose idiom
- advertent
- advisedly
- aim
- aim at sth
- calculate
- chart
- engineer
- I might have known idiom
- in the pipeline idiom
- intend
- intent
- intention
- promise
- reckon on sth
- scheme
- scientific
- see sth coming idiom
- set sth up
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consciously
adverb uk/ˈkɒn.ʃəs.li/us/ˈkɑːn.ʃəs.li/
I don't think she's consciously rude to people - it's just the way she is.