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cognizant

adjective

cog·ni·zantˈkäg-nə-zənt How to pronounce cognizant (audio)

Synonyms ofcognizant next

:knowledgeable of something especially through personal experience

also:mindful

acutelycognizant of the potential dangers

… they should have been a little morecognizant of what the airport's needs would be.—

Tom Gougeon, quoted inThe Denver Post

:having responsibility or jurisdiction

thecognizant agency

That recommendation and a proposal to enhance services … have been forwarded tocognizant committees …—

Stanley Kirschner

Synonyms ofcognizant

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aware,cognizant,conscious,sensible,alive,awake mean having knowledge of something.

aware implies vigilance in observing or alertness in drawing inferences from what one experiences.

aware of changes in climate

cognizant implies having special or certain knowledge as from firsthand sources.

not fullycognizant of the facts

conscious implies that one is focusing one's attention on something or is even preoccupied by it.

conscious that my heart was pounding

sensible implies direct or intuitive perceiving especially of intangibles or of emotional states or qualities.

sensible of a teacher's influence

alive adds tosensible the implication of acute sensitivity to something.

alive to the thrill of danger

awake implies that one has become alive to something and is on the alert.

a country alwaysawake to the threat of invasion

Examples ofcognizant in a Sentence

Not like some college kid beaming in blissful ignorance, but rather like a worldly 23-year-old, self-aware and fullycognizant of the dire straits he's entering.—

Jody Berger,ESPN,14 June 1999

… the idea of a machinecognizant of that human Achilles' heel, emotion, can conjure more sinister images—like HAL, the savvy, menacing computer in "2001," whose fear that he would be unplugged led him to kill all but one of the crew members on a space mission.—

Daniel Goleman,New York Times,7 Jan. 1997

… to assure you that I am neither privy to, norcognizant of, any such clique; and that I most potently disbelieve in the existence of any such.—

Abraham Lincoln,letter,13 Oct. 1849

He iscognizant of his duties as a father. not fullycognizant of the details of the trade agreement

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Becognizant of overloading extension cords and be careful to keep heaters and flammable items away from other heat-generating devices.—

Lauren Caruba,Dallas Morning News, 23 Jan. 2026If anything, Maye will need to be even morecognizant of his blind side, and Josh McDaniels will need to design plays to get the ball out even faster.—

Doug Kyed,Boston Herald, 21 Jan. 2026And the folks out there are verycognizant of that.—

Dana Taylor,USA Today, 20 Jan. 2026So guests should be appreciative of that andcognizant of their own role in that give-and-take relationship, Jokilehto said.—

Kristen Rogers,CNN Money, 25 Dec. 2025See All Example Sentences forcognizant