aware
Vigilant or on one's guard against danger or difficulty.
Adjective
- Vigilant or on one's guard against danger or difficulty.
- Stay aware! Don't let your guard down.
- Conscious or having knowledge of something; awake.
- Are you aware of what is being said about you?
- Gotta get going. I wasn’t aware that it was already so late.
- “[…] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment.” Saying...
Origin
Inherited from Middle English aware, iwar, iware, ywar, from Old English ġewær (“aware”), from Proto-West Germanic *gawar, from Proto-Germanic *waraz (“aware, cautious”), from Proto-Indo-European *worós (“attentive”), from *wer- (“to heed; watch out”). Cognate with Dutch gewaar, German gewahr, Danish var, Swedish var, Icelandic varr.
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Synonyms
wary watchful sensitive alert attentive observant apprised informed cognizant conscious mindful aware witting in the know on the ball on the same page sharp up to speed up-to-date with it
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awarely awareness hyperaware locale-aware locale-awareness self-aware self-awareness well-aware well aware well-awareness
Verb
- To make (someone) aware of something.
- Conſcience is the director of all our actions, and diſcriminates them all, with the intentions of our hearts; awares us of the crime of the one, and the virtue of the other. - 1799, William Earle, Junior, Natural...