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1. Aware of and alert to social injustices
   "The industry is more woke now"
    
2. Perceived as smug, virtue signalling and intolerant of other viewpoints
   "the anti-democratic illiberal woke brigade"

1. Stop sleeping
   "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock";
   - wake up, awake, arouse, awaken, come alive, waken
    
2. Cause to become awake or conscious
   "Please wake me at 6 AM.";
   - awaken, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse
    
3. Be awake, be alert, be there
    
4. Arouse or excite feelings and passions
   "Wake old feelings of hatred";
   - inflame, stir up, ignite, heat, fire up
    
5. To alert someone to something
   "His words woke us to terrible facts of the situation"

Derived forms: wokest, woker

Type of: alarm, alert, alter, arouse, change, change state, elicit, enkindle [literary], evoke, fire, kindle, modify, provoke, raise, turn

Antonym: sleep

Encyclopedia: Woke