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[ US /ˈkɑnʃəs/ ]
[ UK /kˈɒnʃəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. (followed by `of') showing realization or recognition of something
    few voters seem conscious of the issue's importance
    the careful tread of one conscious of his alcoholic load
    conscious of having succeeded
  2. 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
  3. intentionally conceived
    a conscious policy
    a conscious effort to speak more slowly

How To Use conscious In A Sentence

  • The recoil from the shot blew James onto his back, unconscious once again.
  • Have a cosmic awareness, an interest in ecology, environment, vegetarianism, or are very socially conscious.
  • Nilufer Bharucha, faculty in the department of English and project coordinator, explained that the term diaspora means to be scattered or dispersed across national boundaries, and has been self-consciously used today by postcolonial theorists to describe those who got displaced from their home owing to colonial politics and post-colonial economic realities. Analysis
  • It seems to embrace a lot of our speculations here about the willful nature of ideas, and works well for things within our conscious realm, from babies to ballpoints.
  • The woman herself lay in Epsom Cottage Hospital for four days without regaining consciousness.
  • In ways often too subtle to be conscious but sometimes overt, I believe, blacks remain devalued in American schools, where, for example, a recent national survey shows that through high school they are still more than twice as likely as white children to receive corporal punishment, be suspended from school, or be labeled mentally retarded. Race and the Schooling of Black Americans
  • In a seemingly unprovoked incident, the attackers hit both men and women in the 16-strong party, with a 72-year-old woman left unconscious.
  • Most intriguingly, among the described symptoms of fugu poisoning is progressive limb paralysis while maintaining consciousness.
  • These new forces have synchronized with the conscious policy of a certain sector of Canadian opinion which has persistently sought to detach us from that quarter of the world's orbit and the world's people comprised in the British federacy. Whither Canada
  • But it was the introduction of the breathalyser in 1967 that really thrust her into the public's consciousness, especially as she herself was a non-driver.
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