sentient
sentient
Definition
sen·tient (-s̸hənt, -s̸hē ənt)
adjective
of, having, or capable of feeling or perception; conscious
Etymology: L sentiens, prp. of sentire, to perceive by the senses: see sense
sen′·tiently adverb
sentient
Synonyms
sentient
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- become: The Yi or thought is pure energy and to become sentient with the energy is to become One with All being.
- create: If they were not created sentient, then how did they sin?
Used with adjective complement
- become: When something totally unexplainable happens and " Jodie " becomes sentient, she is elated.
Modifies a noun
- being: The notes are not sentient beings they are just notes.
- creature: Why should they give a moment to think about the sentient creatures destined to die inside a facility they are building?
- discover: Sentient DISCOVER is now the first resource management system to meet the requirements of AAA Bobby Compliance.
- specie: Simply to satisfy the intellectual curiosity of the members of one sentient species at the expense of the lives of others?
- animal: The modern dairy cow is increasingly being treated more like a milk producing machine than a sentient animal.
- race: Jane, the evolved computer intelligence, can save the world's three sentient races.
Modifying Another Word
- not: The notes are not sentient beings they are just notes.
- fully: The animals which are widely accepted as children's pets are, of course, fully sentient.
- also: Holy relics and ancient books are still around, yet there are also sentient robots.
Noun used with modifier
- kind: What can I do that will enable me to rescue all these kind mother sentient beings from this perilous predicament?
- mother: What can I do that will enable me to rescue all these kind mother sentient beings from this perilous predicament?
- nonhuman: We cannot go further than this and say that salvation or liberation is available to nonhuman sentient beings.
- living: This is seen to be harming a living sentient being.
Browse dictionary entries near sentient
- sentience
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- sentential function
- sentence stress
- sentence
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- sensualize
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- sentimental
- sentimentalism
- sentimentality
- sentimentalize
- sentinel
- sentry
- sentry box
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