sentient

1. 1.

   endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness

   “the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage”

   Synonymsanimate

   Antonymsinsentient

   Similarsensate
2. 2.

   consciously perceiving

   “sentient of the intolerable load”

   “a boy so sentient of his surroundings”

   Similarconscious

Other forms of sentient

comparative

sentienter·

superlative

sentientest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sentient

What does sentient mean?

sentient means "endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sentient?

sentient has 2 syllables: sen-tient. The stress falls on "sen".

What is another word for sentient?

Close synonyms include animate. 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.

What is the opposite of sentient?

The recorded antonyms are insentient.

Is sentient a common word?

sentient is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.