awakened

awak·ened
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/əˈweɪkənd/

adjective

Having been woken up.

“an awakened interest in ballet”

Opposite
Less commonScrabble 16

Meanings

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of awaken
    1 more example

    But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat’s-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.

    1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC
adjectiveawakened (comparative more awakened, superlative most awakened)

comparative more awakened · superlative most awakened

  1. Having been woken up.

    The awakened baby began to cry.

  2. Aroused; alerted; activated; enlightened.

    an awakened interest in ballet

    1 more example

    Lined against them are more progressive and populist leaning opposition parties campaigning for democratic reforms that have a history of attracting […] a new generation of politically awakened young people.

    2023 May 14, Heather Chen, Kocha Olarn, “Polls close in Thailand as opposition takes on kingdom’s conservative cliques”, in CNN

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivearoused or activated

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Opposite

adjective(somewhat formal) having been waked up

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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Translations

Ancient Greek ἔξυπνος
  • ἔξυπνος (éxupnos)having been woken up
Finnish herätetty, herätetty
  • herätettyhaving been woken up
  • herätettyaroused or activated
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APA

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MLA

“awakened.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/awakened. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “awakened,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/awakened.

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