cognizant
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7.5
- adjective
- /ˈkɒɡnɪzənt/
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consciente de
- You should always be cognizant of your surroundings while walking alone at night.
- need to be cognizant
- fully cognizant
- remain cognizant
So you have to be very cognizant of where this all goes.
- So you have to be very cognizant of where this all goes.
- That's something I'm cognizant of and I try to work on.
- We're still not able to be cognizant of how hard the problem is.
- They also are cognizant of the fact that we're all going to die.
- I mean, are you cognizant of it even now?
- How cognizant do you think the people are in those areas?
- But a lot of people these days are pretty cognizant of their weight.
- So as I was making these changes, I was not fully cognizant of the differences in calorie density.
- But I just think that people have to be much more cognizant of what they're doing and how they're building a brand.
- There's a good bit, I'm going to skip over a little bit here because I want to be cognizant of time here.
- He says the body can feel only what is present to it at the moment, whereas the mind is cognizant of the past and the future.
- The second step is becoming really cognizant of the pain or the consequences of that pattern.
- I'm, I'm, I'm much more cognizant of it in, in my own choices.
- They're very cognizant of of what they do.
Examples
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I'm fully cognizant of our situation.
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The teacher must be cognizant of any problems that students encounter and be ready to adapt accordingly.
Academic text (1993) -
So you have to be very cognizant of where this all goes.
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We're still not able to be cognizant of how hard the problem is.
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How cognizant do you think the people are in those areas?
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But a lot of people these days are pretty cognizant of their weight.
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But you know, we do want to be cognizant of the time frame.
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We must communicate and remain cognizant of each other's needs, and above all, we must care.
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The leadership in Beijing is fully cognizant of the dilemma it faces.
Academic text (1991) -
Approximately 45% of the sample was cognizant that burning fossil fuels will lead to a warmer climate.
Academic text (1996)
Synonyms
∞
2.7
Knowing that something exists or is happening
57
4.0
Aware of something and paying careful attention
33
3.5
A person who knows a lot about a subject or the world
31
4.0
Aware of something and careful about it
Someone who knows a lot about a subject because they have the facts
How Aware
Surface Forms
Morphology
cognizant = cognize (opaque) = cogniz + ant
The stem 'cogniz-' is not a productive or familiar modern English base for most learners, so the adjective's meaning is not transparently derived from obvious component words.
Etymology
Cognizant comes from the Latin verb cognoscere, which means 'to know', and you can see the same root in recognize. So to be cognizant of something is to be 'aware' or to 'know' about it.