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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conscious |
| Synonyms: | able to recognize, alert, apperceptive, attentive, awake, aware, cognizant, feeling, in on, in the right mind, informed, knowing, noticing, observing, perceiving, receptive, recognizing, responsive, seeing, sensitive to, understanding, watchful |
| Main Entry: | cognizant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | aware |
| Synonyms: | acquainted, alive, apprehensive, au courant, awake, conscious, conversant, down with, familiar, grounded, hep to, hip to, in on, in the know, in the picture, informed, judicious, knowing, knowledgeable, observant, on the beam, on to, perceptive, plugged in, savvy, sensible, sentient, tuned in, up on, versed, wise to, with it, witting |
| Antonyms: | ignorant, unaware, unfamiliar, uninformed, unknowledgeable, unwitting |
| 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: | conversant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | experienced, familiar with |
| Synonyms: | abreast, acquainted, alive, apprehensive, au courant, au fait, aware, cognizant, comprehending, conscious, cool*, down with, hep, hip*, informed, into, kept posted, knowing, knowledgeable, learned, on the beam, perceptive, percipient, plugged in, practiced, proficient, sensible, sentient, skilled, up*, up-to-date, versant, versed, well-informed, witting |
| Antonyms: | ignorant, inexperienced, quiet, silent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | emotional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | demonstrative about feelings |
| Synonyms: | affecting, ardent, disturbed, ecstatic, emotive, enthusiastic, excitable, exciting, falling apart, fanatical, feeling, fervent, fervid, fickle, fiery, heartwarming, heated, histrionic, hot-blooded, hysterical, impassioned, impetuous, impulsive, irrational, moving, nervous, overwrought, passionate, pathetic, poignant, responsive, roused, sensitive, sentient, sentimental, spontaneous, stirred, stirring, susceptible, tear-jerking, temperamental, tender, thrilling, touching, warm, zealous |
| Notes: | emotional means 'affected by an emotion' while emotive means 'drawing out or evoking emotion' |
| Antonyms: | physical |
| Main Entry: | impressionable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easily taught; gullible |
| Synonyms: | affectable, affected, feeling, impressible, influenceable, ingenuous, open, perceptive, plastic, receptive, responsive, sensible, sensile, sensitive, sentient, suggestible, susceptible, susceptive, vulnerable, wax-like |
| Antonyms: | insusceptible, obstinate, stubborn, unimpressionable, unresponsive |
| Main Entry: | knowing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | experienced, aware |
| Synonyms: | alive, apprehensive, astute, awake, brainy, bright, brilliant, canny, clever, cognizant, competent, conscious, conversant, cool*, crack*, deliberate, discerning, expert, insightful, intelligent, intended, intentional, judicious, knowledgeable, observant, perceptive, percipient, qualified, quick, quick-witted, sagacious, sage, sensible, sentient, sharp, skillful, slick*, smart, sophic, sophisticated, tuned-in, vigilant, watchful, well-informed, wise, with-it, witting, worldly, worldly-wise |
| Antonyms: | inexperienced, unaware, uncognizant, unknowing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | psychic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extrasensory in perception |
| Synonyms: | analytic, cerebral, clairvoyant, immaterial, impressible, impressionable, intellective, intellectual, mental, metaphysical, mystic, occult, preternatural, psychal, psychical, psychogenic, psychological, responsive, sensible, sensile, sensitive, sentient, spiritual, supernatural, supersensible, supersensitive, supersensory, supersensual, susceptible, susceptive, telekinetic, telepathic, transmundane, unworldly |
| Main Entry: | responsive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | quick to react |
| Synonyms: | acknowledging, active, alive, answering, awake, aware, compassionate, conscious, forthcoming, impressionable, influenceable, kindhearted, open, passionate, perceptive, persuadable, reactive, receptive, replying, respondent, sensible, sensile, sensitive, sentient, sharp, softhearted, susceptible, susceptive, sympathetic, tender, warm, warmhearted |
| Antonyms: | insensitive, unresponsive, unsusceptible |
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