Definition of "woke" in English

adjective

1. (African-American Vernacular or slang) Awake: conscious and not asleep.

2. (originally African-American Vernacular, slang) Alert, aware of what is going on, or well-informed, especially of racial and other social justice issues.

3. (by extension, politics, slang, often derogatory) Holding progressive views or attitudes, principally with regard to social justice.

4. (by extension, politics, slang, derogatory) Promoting cancel culture, identitarianism, pontification, victim mentality, or virtue signalling.

noun

1. (countable, slang, often derogatory) A person with progressive views or attitudes.

2. (uncountable, slang, derogatory) A progressive ideology, in particular with regards to social justice.

verb

1. simple past of wake

2. (now colloquial or dialectal) past participle of wake