woke.
Awake: conscious and not asleep.
Meaning & usage
Awake: conscious and not asleep.
Alert, aware of what is going on, or well-informed, especially of racial and other social justice issues.
Holding progressive views or attitudes, principally with regard to social justice.
Promoting cancel culture, pontification, victim mentality, or virtue signalling.
Where this word comes from
Shortened from woken or woken up, or derived from dialectal use of woke (past participle of wake). The sense of being aware of social injustice dates to at least the 1930s. The derogatory use has been most commonly used as of the 2020s.
A person with progressive views or attitudes.
A progressive ideology, in particular with regards to social justice.
Where this word comes from
Shortened from woken or woken up, or derived from dialectal use of woke (past participle of wake). The sense of being aware of social injustice dates to at least the 1930s. The derogatory use has been most commonly used as of the 2020s.
simple past of wake
past participle of wake
Where this word comes from
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Try it on your idea.
woke has 4 characters. Say it out loud, try it alongside a description of your project, and see whether its meaning fits what you want to create.
These are naming prompts. Meanings and pronunciation can vary; existing brand and domain uses have not been checked.
Explore the name generatorA word with a source.
Definitions, grammatical labels, IPA, etymology and examples: Wiktionary contributors, extracted by Kaikki / Wiktextract. Adapted under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected fields and authored examples are shown; third-party quotations and audio are omitted. See contributor history.
Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.