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Main Entry:
aware [uh-wair]
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
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: informed
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: cognizant, conversant
Synonyms: abreast, acquainted, apprized, au courant*, au fait, briefed, enlightened, erudite, expert, familiar, in the know, into*, know the score, know what's what, knowledgeable, learned, on top of, posted, primed, reliable, savvy*, tuned in, up on, up*, up-to-date, versant, versed, well-read, wise to
Antonyms: ignorant, unaware, uninformed, unknowledgeable
Main Entry: perceptive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: alert, sensitive
Synonyms: acute, astute, awake, aware, brainy, conscious, discerning, discreet, ear to the ground, gnostic, incisive, insighted, insightful, intuitive, judicious, keen, knowing, knowledgeable, knows what's what, observant, penetrating, penetrative, percipient, perspicacious, quick, rational, responsive, sagacious, sage, savvy*, sharp, sophic, tuned in, wise, wise to
Antonyms: dense, insensitive, unaware, unobservant
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
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
Main Entry: au fait
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: familiar with
Synonyms: au courant, expert, skillful, up on, up to snuff, well instructed, wise to
Main Entry: detect
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: discover
Synonyms: ascertain, catch, descry, dig up, disclose, distinguish, encounter, espy, expose, find, hit on, hit upon, identify, meet, meet with, nose out, note, notice, observe, recognize, reveal, scent, see, smell out, smoke out, spot, stumble on, track down, tumble into, turn up, uncover, unmask, wise up to
Antonyms: miss, not see, overlook, pass by
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