Await, v. a. 1. Expect, abide, wait for, stay for, look for, be in readiness for.
2. Attend, be in store for, be prepared for, be ready for.
Awake, a. 1. Not asleep.
2. Attentive, watchful, vigilant, alive, on the alert.
Awake, v. a. &n. Awaken.
Awaken, v. a. 1. Awake, wake, rouse from sleep.
2. Arouse, excite, kindle, spur, incite, stimulate, provoke, stir up.
Awaken, v. n. Wake, waken, be awakened, be roused from sleep.
Awakening, n. Revival.
Award, v. a. Adjudge, decrees.
Award, n. Judgment, decree, adjudication, determination, decision.
Aware, a. Mindful, conscious, cognizant, observant, apprised, sensible, convinced, persuaded.
Away, ad. 1. Absent, gone, off, from home, at a distance, not present.
2. Begone, let us go.
Away with, Take away.
Awe, n. 1. Reverence, veneration, reverential fear.
2. Dread, fearfulness.
Awe, v. a. Overawe, intimidate, frighten, affright, daunt, cow, inspire with awe.
Awe-struck, a. Dismayed, horrified, appalled, terrified, frightened, panic-stricken, horror-struck.
Awful, a. 1. Venerable, august, grand, stately, imposing, solemn, majestic.
2. Dread, dreadful, fearful, horrible, horrid, terrible, dire, direful, frightful, appalling, tremendous.
3. [Vulgar.] Ugly, homely, unsightly, ill-looking.
Awhile, ad. For a time, for some time, some time, for a while.
Awkward, a. 1. Unskilful, bungling, unhandy, maladroit, inapt, without dexterity.
2. Unwieldy, unmanageable, inconvenient, unfit, lumbering.
3. Uncouth, unrefined, unpolished, uncourtly, rude, rough, clumsy, coarse, wooden, inelegant, ungainly, untoward, ungraceful, stiff, constrained, uneasy, rustic, boorish, clownish, loutish, gawky, lubberly, slouching.
Awned, a. (Bot.) Aristate, bearded.
Awning, n. Canopy, tilt.
Awry, ad. 1. Obliquely, asquint, askance.
2. Perversely, wrong.
Awry, a. Oblique, slanting, distorted, crooked, wry.
Axilla, n. [L. pl. Axillæ.] (Anat.) Armpit.
Axiom, n. 1. Truism, self-evident proposition, intuitive truth, necessary truth.
2. Postulate, established principle (not of necessity true), proposition commonly received, assumed truth.
Axiomatic, a. Self-evident, certain, positive, absolute.
Axiomatical, a. Self-evident, certain, positive, absolute.
Axis, n. Shaft, spindle, arbor.
Ay, ad. Yes.
Aye, ad. Yes.
Aye, ad. [Poetical.] Always, for ever.