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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | knowledgeable |
| Synonyms: | acquainted, alert, alive, appraised, appreciative, apprehensive, apprised, attentive, au courant, awake, cognizant, conscious, cool*, enlightened, familiar, go-go, groovy*, grounded, heedful, hip*, in the know, in the picture, informed, into*, know the score, know what's what, know-how, knowing, latched on, mindful, on the beam, on to, perceptive, plugged in, receptive, savvy, sensible, sentient, sharp, tuned in, up on, wise, wise to, wised up, with it |
| Antonyms: | ignorant, insensitive, unaware, unconscious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | conscious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | alert, awake |
| Synonyms: | able to recognize, acquainted, aesthetic, alive to, apperceptive, apprised, assured, attentive, au courant, aware, certain, cognizant, conversant, discerning, felt, hep to, in on, in right mind, informed, keen, knowing, known, mindful, noticing, noting, observing, on to, perceiving, percipient, recognizing, remarking, responsive, seeing, sensible, sensitive to, sentient, supraliminal, sure, understanding, vigilant, watchful, wise to, with it, witting |
| Notes: | conscience is the noun meaning 'a sense of right and wrong' while conscious is the adjective meaning 'aware of something, being awake' |
| Antonyms: | ignorant, impassive, indifferent, senseless, unaware, unconscious, unmindful, unresponsive |
| Main Entry: | mindful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | attentive, aware |
| Synonyms: | alert, alive to, apprehensive, au courant, be up on, cagey, careful, cautious, chary, cognizant, conscientious, conscious, conversant, heedful, in the know, know all the answers, know ins and outs, knowing, knowledgeable, observant, observative, observing, on one's toes, on the ball, on the job, on to, plugged in, regardful, respectful, sensible, solicitous, thoughtful, tuned in, vigilant, wary, watchful, with eyes peeled |
| Antonyms: | absent-minded, careless, heedless, inattentive, unaware |
| Main Entry: | sophisticated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cosmopolitan, cultured |
| Synonyms: | adult, artificial, been around, blasé, bored, citified, cool*, couth, cultivated, cynical, disenchanted, disillusioned, experienced, in, in the know, into*, jaded, jet-set, knowing, laid-back*, mature, mondaine, on to, practical, practiced, refined, schooled, seasoned, sharp, skeptical, smooth, stagy, streetwise, studied, suave, svelte, switched on, uptown, urbane, well-bred, wise to, wised up, with it, world-weary, worldly, worldly wise |
| Antonyms: | naive, uncultivated, uncultured, unrefined, unsophisticated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | understood |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | assumed, implicit |
| Synonyms: | accepted, appreciated, axiomatic, down pat, implied, inferential, inferred, known, on to, pat, presumed, roger, tacit, taken for granted, undeclared, unexpressed, unsaid, unspoken, unstated, wise to, wordless |
| Antonyms: | explained, explicit, spoken, written |
| Main Entry: | with it |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cognizant; stylish |
| Synonyms: | alive, apprehensive, au courant, awake, aware, chic, conscious, cool*, familiar, groovy*, hep to, hip to, in, in fashion, in on, in the know, in vogue, informed, knowing, knowledgeable, latest, mod, now*, observant, on to, perceptive, plugged in, savvy, switched on, trendy, tuned in, turned on, up on, versed, wise to |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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