From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Conscious \Con"scious\, adjective [L. conscius; con- + scire to know. See {Conscience}.]
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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: intentionally conceived; "a conscious effort to speak more slowly"; "a conscious policy" [syn: {witting}]
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" [ant: {unconscious}]
3: (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 [syn: {conscious(p)}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
137 Moby Thesaurus words for "conscious": aboveground, advertent, advised, agog, aimed, aimed at, alert, alive, alive and kicking, alive to, all ears, all eyes, all-knowing, among the living, animate, animated, apperceptive, appercipient, apprehending, apprehensive, assiduous, attentive, au courant, awake, aware, bashful, breathing, calculated, capable of life, careful, cognizant, comprehending, concentrated, confused, considered, contemplated, conversant, coy, deliberate, deliberated, demure, designed, diligent, earnest, endowed with life, enlivened, envisaged, envisioned, existent, finical, finicking, finicky, heedful, impressible, impressionable, impressive, in the flesh, inarticulate, insightful, inspirited, instinct with life, intelligent, intended, intense, intent, intentional, intentive, knowing, knowledgeable, live, living, long-lived, mannered, meant, meditated, meticulous, mindful, mousy, nice, niggling, noticing, observant, observing, of design, omniscient, on the ball, on the job, open-eared, open-eyed, openmouthed, perceiving, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, planned, prehensile, projected, proposed, purposed, purposeful, purposive, quick, receptive, regardful, sagacious, self-conscious, sensible, sensile, sensitive to, sentient, shamefaced, shamefast, shrewd, shy, skittish, stammering, studied, susceptible, susceptive, teleological, tenacious of life, timid, timorous, understanding, up, very much alive, viable, vigilant, vital, vivified, voluntary, watchful, wide-awake, willful, wise, witting, zoetic
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