aware
/əˈweː/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.78 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "Stay aware! Don't let your guard down."
- "Are you aware of what is being said about you?"
- "Gotta get going. I wasn’t aware that it was already so late."
- "“[…] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment.” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly."
- "The guard was paying no attention whatever to the running of his train, in total disregard of rules, and, as the recently-published report of a Ministry of Transport Inspecting Officer of Railways shows, there were other disquieting features in the case, such as ignorance on the part of responsible men of rules and appendix instructions and a lax attitude to regulations of which they professed to be aware, combined with failure to look at staff notice boards."
- "Americans are not libertarians in the Cato Institute sense of the word, but they are folk libertarians in this sense of impulsive behaviour, which is a feature of American life that anyone who wants to govern the United States, Democratic or Republican, has to be aware of."
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English aware, iwar, iware, ywar, from Old English ġewær (“aware”), from Proto-West Germanic *gawar, from Proto-Germanic *waraz (“aware, cautious”), from Proto-Indo-European *worós (“attentive”), from *wer- (“to heed; watch out”). Cognate with Dutch gewaar, German gewahr, Danish var, Swedish var, Icelandic varr.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /əˈweː/
- British English: /əˈwɛə/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more aware (comparative)
awarer (comparative)
most aware (superlative)
awarest (superlative)
awares (present, singular)
awaring (participle, present)
awared (participle, past)
awared (past)