aware

See also: Aware

English

Etymology

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, Swedish var, Icelandic varr.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈwɛɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈwɛə/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /əˈweːɹ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: aware

Adjective

aware (comparative more aware or awarer, superlative most aware or awarest)

1. Vigilant or on one's guard against danger or difficulty.

   Stay aware! Don't let your guard down.

2. Conscious or having knowledge of something.

   Are you aware of what is being said about you?

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     “ […] 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 this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.

Synonyms

• (on one's guard): wary, watchful, sensitive, alert, attentive, observant
• (conscious of something): apprised, informed, cognizant, conscious, mindful

Antonyms

• unaware

Derived terms

• awareness
• locale-aware
• self-aware
• well aware
• well-aware

 

Related terms

• wary
• beware

Translations

vigilant, on one's guard

• Armenian: զգոն (hy) (zgon)
• Bulgarian: бдителен (bg) (bditelen)
• Catalan: vigilant (ca) m, a l’aguait, atent (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 警惕的 (jǐngtì de)

• Czech: bdělý (cs) m, ostražitý m
• Dutch: waakzaam (nl), op zijn hoede
• Finnish: valpas (fi)
• French: attentif (fr), vigilant (fr), en éveil, en alerte, sur ses gardes (fr)
• German: wachsam (de), gewahr (de)
• Indonesian: waspada (id)
• Italian: all'erta
• Portuguese: alerta (pt)
• Russian: бди́тельный (ru) (bdítelʹnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: будан, budan (sh)
• Spanish: alerta (es)
• Tagalog: naiino, nakaiino
• Tatar: saq
• Ukrainian: пи́льний (pýlʹnyj)

having knowledge of something

• Armenian: տեղյակ (hy) (teġyak), գիտակից (hy) (gitakicʿ)
• Azerbaijani: xəbərdar, agah (az), hali
• Belarusian: дасве́дчаны (dasvjédčany), ве́даючы (vjédajučy)
• Bulgarian: съзнаващ (bg) (sǎznavašt)
• Catalan: conscient (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 知道的 (zhīdào de), 意識到的／意识到的 (yìshídào de)

• Czech: vědom (cs), znalý m
• Dutch: op de hoogte zijn
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: tietoinen (fi)
• French: conscient (fr), au courant (fr)
• German: bewusst (de), gewahr (de)
• Indonesian: sadar (id)
• Irish: eolach
• Italian: consapevole (it)
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ئاگادار‎ (agadar)

• Latin: cōnscius
• Old English: ġewær, ġecnǣwe
• Persian: آگاه‎ (fa) (âgâh)
• Polish: świadom (pl) m, świadomy (pl) m
• Portuguese: consciente (pt), ciente (pt)
• Russian: зна́ющий (ru) (znájuščij), осведомлённый (ru) (osvedomljónnyj), све́дущий (ru) (svéduščij), в ку́рсе (ru) (v kúrse)
• Scottish Gaelic: fiosrach
• Serbo-Croatian: свестан, svestan (sh), свестан, svjestan (sh)
• Spanish: consciente (es), conocedor (es), sabedor (es), entendido (es), entendedor (es), avezado (es)
• Swedish: medveten (sv)
• Tagalog: naiino, nakaiino
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: зна́ючий (znájučyj), обі́знаний (uk) (obíznanyj)

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• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} осведомен (bg) (osvedomen); ^{(please verify)} който съзнава, усеща, чувствува, долавя, знае (kojto sǎznava, usešta, čuvstvuva, dolavja, znae)
• German: ^{(please verify)} bewusst (de), ^{(please verify)} gewahr (de), ^{(please verify)} gewärtig (de)
• Hungarian: ^{(please verify)} tudatában van (hu)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} conscio (it), ^{(please verify)} consapevole (it)

Japanese

Romanization

aware

1. Rōmaji transcription of あわれ

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Noun

aware

1. a possum, Didelphis marsupialis