Conscious is an English word with synonyms like aware or voluntary. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Conscious in a sentence
Related words
Conscious meaning
- Alert, awake; with one's mental faculties active.
- Aware of one's own existence; aware of one's own awareness.
- Aware of, sensitive to; observing and noticing, or being strongly interested in or concerned about.
Synonyms of Conscious
Using Conscious
- The main meaning on this page is: Alert, awake; with one's mental faculties active. | Aware of one's own existence; aware of one's own awareness. | Aware of, sensitive to; observing and noticing, or being strongly interested in or concerned about.
- Useful related words include: awake, aware, cognizant, cognisant.
- In the example corpus, conscious often appears in combinations such as: conscious of, environmentally conscious, conscious and.
Example sentences (20)
We are conscious creatures in a conscious universe.
Conscious awareness resides in the ego, although not all of the operations of the ego are conscious.
Descartes defines "thought" (cogitatio) as "what happens in me such that I am immediately conscious of it, insofar as I am conscious of it".
Fromm also described love as a conscious choice that in its early stages might originate as an involuntary feeling, but which then later no longer depends on those feelings, but rather depends only on conscious commitment.
He then sets out the theoretical model of mental structure (the unconscious, pre-conscious and conscious) on which this account is based.
His concept of "spirit" is close to the concept of "conscious subject" or of "mind", and the concept of "idea" is close to the concept of "sensation" or "state of mind" or "conscious experience".
In psychoanalytic terms, the unconscious does not include all that is not conscious, but rather what is actively repressed from conscious thought or what a person is averse to knowing consciously.
The argument, to be clear, is not about whether a machine can be conscious, but about whether it (or anything else for that matter) can be shown to be conscious.
According to him, many people, especially petty traders were becoming increasingly conscious of the date when the old notes would cease to be recognised as legal tender and were trying to beat the deadline.
According to the organisation, its Chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa, charged the operatives to be conscious of the interest of the nation and to exhibit a high sense of professionalism in the discharge of their duties.
A fire service spokesperson added: "Access was gained by the fire crew through a bathroom window and an elderly female patient, who was found in the bathroom conscious and breathing was left in the care of the ambulance service.
All these ideas are consistent with the (financial independence, retire early), which emphasizes making more conscious choices with your work and personal spending.
Also, please keep in mind that we made a conscious decision to continue to invest for future profitable growth.
Although sci-fi is replete with conscious human-like AI that shares human values, it’s clear by now that the space of possible alien minds is vastly larger than that.
A Magen David Adom paramedic who attended the scene said he found the seriously injured man lying next to the vehicle, conscious and with shrapnel wounds.
And it takes conscious effort to regear a cost-per-acquisition-based performance marketing mindset—but the rewards are well worth it.
And the scope of the movie is epic, much like Tangled, it feels like a conscious effort to be like a Disney Renaissance movie.
Another strategy WMT uses to appeal to cost-conscious consumers during economic downturns is its focus on private-label brands.
As her self-esteem hit a low, she missed part of her daughter’s wedding as she was too ‘self-conscious’ and ‘anxious’ about her appearance to stay for the photos.
A spokesperson for the Education Authority told BBC News NI: "We are conscious this is a challenging time for schools.
Common combinations with conscious
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- conscious of 32×
- environmentally conscious 15×
- conscious and 11×
- was conscious 11×
- be conscious 10×
- conscious decision 10×
- conscious effort 9×
- are conscious 7×
- conscious about 7×
- the conscious 7×