conscious Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite intentionally conceived
    witting.
    • a conscious effort to speak more slowly
    • a conscious policy
  2. adjective 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. adjective satellite (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

WordNet

Con"scious adjective
Etymology
L. conscius; con- + scire to know. See Conscience.
Definitions
  1. Possessing the faculty of knowing one's own thoughts or mental operations.
    Some are thinking or conscious beings, or have a power of thought. I. Watts.
  2. Possessing knowledge, whether by internal, conscious experience or by external observation; cognizant; aware; sensible.
    Her conscious heart imputed suspicion where none could have been felt. Hawthorne.
    The man who breathes most healthilly is least conscious of his own breathing. De Quincey.
  3. Made the object of consciousness; known to one's self; as, conscious guilt.
    With conscious terrors vex me round. Milton.
    Syn. -- Aware; apprised; sensible; felt; known.

Webster 1913