come alive

1. 1.

   stop sleeping

   “She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock”

   Synonymswake upawakearouseawakenwakewaken

   Broaderchange state

Questions about come alive

What does come alive mean?

come alive means "stop sleeping".

What is another word for come alive?

Close synonyms include wake up, awake, arouse, awaken, wake. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is come alive a common word?

come alive is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.