How do you use the word "conscious" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "conscious" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "conscious": I was conscious that something was missing. I expect you realised that without being conscious of it.

Conscious Meaning

/ˈkɑn.ʃəs/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

adjAlert, awake; with one's mental faculties active.

adjAware of one's own existence; aware of one's own awareness.

Sentence Examples

I was conscious that something was missing.

I expect you realised that without being conscious of it.

She's very conscious of the problems involved.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

None

Antonyms:

unintended unconscious

CEFR Practice Quiz

After the accident, she remained ____ but unable to move her legs.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

Following the terrible accident, the driver remained fully ____ while waiting for the ambulance.

Word Origin & History

First use appears c. 1573 in the sense of "aware of wrongdoing".https://web.archive.org/web/20220714064352/https://www.lexico.com/definition/conscious From Latin cōnscius (“conscious, conscious of guilt”), itself from con- (a form of com- (“together”)) + scīre (“to know”) + -us.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious." — 1999, Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now, Hodder and Stoughton, pages 61–62:

"Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands." — 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

"Once again the animals were conscious of a vague uneasiness." — 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:

"Furthermore, the military operator is far less conscious of budgetary constraints than is the civilian consumer." — 1955, Arthur Smithies, The Budgetary Process in the United States, page 290:

"He candidly confesses that it is an effort to account for Joseph Smith upon some other hypothesis than that he was a conscious fraud, bent on deceiving mankind." — 1907, Brigham Henry Roberts, Defense of the Faith and the Saints, volume 1, page 43:

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