| await | (verb) look forward to the probable occurrence of | Synonyms: expect, look, wait |
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| awaited | (adjective) expected hopefully | Synonyms: anticipated, hoped-for |
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| awake | (adjective) not in a state of sleep; completely conscious | - |
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| (adjective) mentally perceptive and responsive | Synonyms: alert, alive |
| (verb) stop sleeping | Synonyms: arouse, awaken, come alive, wake, wake up, waken |
| awaken | (verb) cause to become awake or conscious | Synonyms: arouse, rouse, wake, wake up, waken |
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| (verb) stop sleeping | Synonyms: arouse, awake, come alive, wake, wake up, waken |
| (verb) make aware | - |
| awakened | (adjective) aroused or activated | - |
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| (adjective) (somewhat formal) having been waked up | - |
| awakening | (noun) the act of waking | Synonyms: wakening, waking up |
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| award | (noun) a grant made by a law court | Synonyms: awarding |
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| (noun) a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction | Synonyms: accolade, honor, honour, laurels |
| (noun) something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery | Synonyms: prize |
| (verb) give, especially as an honor or reward | Synonyms: present |
| (verb) give as judged due or on the basis of merit | Synonyms: grant |
| awarding | (noun) a grant made by a law court | Synonyms: award |
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| aware | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception | Synonyms: cognisant, cognizant |
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| (adjective) bearing in mind; attentive to | Synonyms: mindful |
| awareness | (noun) having knowledge of | Synonyms: cognisance, cognizance, consciousness, knowingness |
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| (noun) state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness | Synonyms: sentience |
| awash | (adjective) covered with water | Synonyms: afloat, flooded, inundated, overflowing |
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| away | (adjective) used of an opponent's ground | - |
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| (adjective) not present; having left | - |
| (adjective) (of a baseball pitch) on the far side of home plate from the batter | Synonyms: outside |
| (adverb) from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete) | Synonyms: forth, off |
| (adverb) from one's possession | Synonyms: out |
| (adverb) in reserve; not for immediate use | Synonyms: aside, by |
| (adverb) out of the way (especially away from one's thoughts) | Synonyms: aside |
| (adverb) out of existence | - |
| (adverb) indicating continuing action; continuously or steadily | - |
| (adverb) in a different direction | Synonyms: aside |
| (adverb) in or into a proper place (especially for storage or safekeeping) | - |
| (adverb) at a distance in space or time | Synonyms: off |
| (adverb) so as to be removed or gotten rid of | - |
| (adverb) freely or at will | - |
| awayness | (noun) the state of being elsewhere than in particular place | - |
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| awe | (noun) a feeling of profound respect for someone or something | Synonyms: fear, reverence, veneration |
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| (noun) an overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration | - |
| (verb) inspire awe in | - |
| aweary | (adjective) physically and mentally fatigued | Synonyms: weary |
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| awed | (adjective) having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread | Synonyms: awestricken, awestruck |
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| (adjective) inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence | Synonyms: awful |
| aweigh | (adjective) (of an anchor) just clear of the bottom | Synonyms: atrip |
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| (adjective) (used of an anchor) hanging clear of the bottom | - |
| aweless | (adjective) neither feeling nor showing respect | Synonyms: awless, disrespectful |
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| (adjective) devoid of any feeling of awe or reverence | Synonyms: awless |
| awesome | (adjective) inspiring awe or admiration or wonder | Synonyms: amazing, awe-inspiring, awful, awing |
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| awestricken | (adjective) having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread | Synonyms: awed, awestruck |
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| awestruck | (adjective) having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread | Synonyms: awed, awestricken |
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| awful | (adjective) offensive or even (of persons) malicious | Synonyms: nasty |
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| (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
| (adjective) exceptionally bad or displeasing | Synonyms: abominable, atrocious, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable |
| (adjective) extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact | Synonyms: frightful, terrible, tremendous |
| (adjective) inspiring awe or admiration or wonder | Synonyms: amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awing |
| (adjective) inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence | Synonyms: awed |
| (adverb) used as intensifiers | Synonyms: awfully, frightfully, terribly |
| awfully | (adverb) used as intensifiers | Synonyms: awful, frightfully, terribly |
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| (adverb) of a dreadful kind | Synonyms: dreadfully, horribly |
| (adverb) in a terrible manner | Synonyms: abominably, abysmally, atrociously, rottenly, terribly |
| awfulness | (noun) a quality of extreme unpleasantness | Synonyms: dreadfulness, horridness, terribleness |
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| awheel | (adjective) traveling by wheeled vehicle such as bicycle or automobile e.g. | - |
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| awhile | (adverb) for a brief period | Synonyms: for a while |
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| awing | (adjective) inspiring awe or admiration or wonder | Synonyms: amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful |
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| awkward | (adjective) lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance | - |
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| (adjective) hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment | Synonyms: embarrassing, sticky, unenviable |
| (adjective) causing inconvenience | - |
| (adjective) not elegant or graceful in expression | Synonyms: clumsy, cumbersome, ill-chosen, inapt, inept |
| (adjective) socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner | Synonyms: ill at ease, uneasy |
| (adjective) difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape | Synonyms: bunglesome, clumsy, ungainly |
| awkwardly | (adverb) in an awkward manner | - |
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| awkwardness | (noun) the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant | Synonyms: clumsiness |
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| (noun) the quality of an embarrassing situation | Synonyms: nuisance value |
| (noun) trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape | Synonyms: cumbersomeness, unwieldiness |
| (noun) the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment) | Synonyms: clumsiness, gracelessness, stiffness |
| (noun) unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training | Synonyms: clumsiness, ineptitude, ineptness, maladroitness, slowness |
| awl | (noun) a pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes | - |
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| awless | (adjective) neither feeling nor showing respect | Synonyms: aweless, disrespectful |
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| (adjective) devoid of any feeling of awe or reverence | Synonyms: aweless |
| awlwort | (noun) small aquatic plant having tufted awl-shaped leaves in a basal rosette and minute white flowers; circumboreal | Synonyms: Subularia aquatica |
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| awn | (noun) slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses | - |
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| awned | (adjective) having awns i.e. bristlelike or hairlike appendages on the flowering parts of some cereals and grasses | Synonyms: awny |
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| awning | (noun) a canopy made of canvas to shelter people or things from rain or sun | Synonyms: sunblind, sunshade |
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| awninged | (adjective) covered with an awning | - |
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| awnless | (adjective) lacking or having only very short awns | - |
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| awny | (adjective) having awns i.e. bristlelike or hairlike appendages on the flowering parts of some cereals and grasses | Synonyms: awned |
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| awol | (adjective) absent without permission | Synonyms: truant |
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| awry | (adjective) turned or twisted toward one side | Synonyms: askew, cockeyed, lopsided, skew-whiff, wonky |
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| (adjective) not functioning properly | Synonyms: amiss, haywire, wrong |
| (adverb) away from the correct or expected course | Synonyms: amiss |
| (adverb) turned or twisted to one side | Synonyms: askew, skew-whiff |