a. | 1. | Possessing the faculty of knowing one's own thoughts or mental operations. |
2. | Possessing knowledge, whether by internal, conscious experience or by external observation; cognizant; aware; sensible. | |
3. | Made the object of consciousness; known to one's self; |
Adj. | 1. | conscious - intentionally conceived; "a conscious effort to speak more slowly"; "a conscious policy" Synonyms: witting |
2. | conscious - knowing and perceiving; having awareness of surroundings and sensations and thoughts; "remained conscious during the operation"; "conscious of his faults"; "became conscious that he was being followed" Antonyms: unconscious - not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead; "lay unconscious on the floor" | |
3. | conscious - (followed by `of') showing realization or recognition of something; "few voters seem conscious of the issue's importance"; "conscious of having succeeded"; "the careful tread of one conscious of his alcoholic load"- Thomas Hardy |