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Antonyms for alert
əˈlɜrtalert

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English Synonyms and Antonyms4.0 / 1 vote

  1. alert

    Alert, ready, and wide-awake refer to a watchful promptness for action. Ready suggests thoughtful preparation; the wandering Indian is alert, the trained soldier is ready. Ready expresses more life and vigor than prepared. The gun is prepared; the man is ready. Prompt expresses readiness for appointment or demand at the required moment. The good general is ready for emergencies, alert to perceive opportunity or peril, prompt to seize occasion. The sense of brisk, nimble is the secondary and now less common signification of alert. Compare ACTIVE; ALIVE; NIMBLE; VIGILANT.

    Antonyms:
    drowsy, dull, heavy, inactive, slow, sluggish, stupid

    Synonyms:
    active, brisk, hustling, lively, nimble, on the watch, prepared, prompt, ready, vigilant, watchful, wide-awake

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms3.0 / 1 vote

  1. alert

    Antonyms:
    slow, sleepy, lazy, absent, unready, oblivious, sluggish, inactive, unwatchful, dilatory, drowsy

    Synonyms:
    active, brisk, nimble, prepared, prompt, vigilant, ready, wakeful, watchful, on the watch, lively

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Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 1 vote

  1. alert, qui vivenoun

    condition of heightened watchfulness or preparation for action

    "bombers were put on alert during the crisis"

    Antonyms:
    unalert, unvigilant, incognizant, lethargic, unenrgetic, unwatchful, unaware

    Synonyms:
    alarm, warning signal, alarum, alerting, qui vive

  2. alert, alertingnoun

    a warning serves to make you more alert to danger

    Antonyms:
    unenrgetic, unalert, unwatchful, incognizant, unaware, unvigilant, lethargic

    Synonyms:
    alarm, warning signal, alarum, alerting, qui vive, alertness

  3. alarm, alert, warning signal, alarumadjective

    an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger

    Antonyms:
    unenrgetic, incognizant, unwatchful, lethargic, unalert, unvigilant, unaware

    Synonyms:
    warning device, alarum, warning signal, consternation, alarm clock, alarm, qui vive, alarm system, alerting, dismay

  4. alert, watchfuladjective

    engaged in or accustomed to close observation

    "caught by a couple of alert cops"; "alert enough to spot the opportunity when it came"; "constantly alert and vigilant, like a sentinel on duty"

    Antonyms:
    unvigilant, unaware, unenrgetic, unwatchful, unalert, lethargic, incognizant

    Synonyms:
    alive(p), sleepless, spanking, insomniac, zippy, awake(p), brisk, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, watchful

  5. alert, brisk, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippyadjective

    quick and energetic

    "a brisk walk in the park"; "a lively gait"; "a merry chase"; "traveling at a rattling rate"; "a snappy pace"; "a spanking breeze"

    Antonyms:
    unaware, unvigilant, incognizant, lethargic, unenrgetic, unalert, unwatchful

    Synonyms:
    jovial, natty, marvelous, festive, rattling(a), brisk, wondrous, nipping, peppy, spruce, resilient, mirthful, jocund, frosty, festal, tremendous, grand, marvellous, snappy, live, racy, bouncing, watchful, lively, bouncy, wonderful, dapper, jolly, gay, spanking, springy, alive(p), tonic, fresh, awake(p), nippy, raffish, jaunty, fantastic, merry, terrific, spiffy, rakish, rattling, snappish, howling(a), refreshful, dashing, spirited, full of life, bracing, crisp, whipping, refreshing, zippy, vital

  6. alert, alive(p), awake(p)verb

    mentally perceptive and responsive;"an alert mind"

    "alert to the problems"; "alive to what is going on"; "awake to the dangers of her situation"; "was now awake to the reality of his predicament"

    Antonyms:
    lethargic, unaware, incognizant, unalert, unvigilant, unwatchful, unenrgetic

  7. alarm, alertverb

    warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness

    "The empty house alarmed him"; "We alerted the new neighbors to the high rate of burglaries"

    Antonyms:
    lethargic, unenrgetic, unalert, unaware, unvigilant, incognizant, unwatchful

    Synonyms:
    alarm, dismay, appall, appal, horrify

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. alertadjective

    Synonyms:
    vigilant, watchful, wary, attentive

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD0.0 / 0 votes

  1. ALERT

    Synonyms:
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Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. dazed

    awake and alert no longer dazed

    john was dazed after he hit his head after some rest john became more alert over time.

    Submitted by anonymous on November 19, 2019  
  2. drowsy

    it is an antonyms for sleepy.

    he stayed alert.

    Submitted by anonymous on November 17, 2019  
  3. sleepy

    Submitted by rinat on October 3, 2019  

How to use alert in a sentence?

  1. Lakshheish M Patel:

    Sensex may close today at 50890. Remain alert for share price fall in the last half an hour. Stock market is merciless because of corporte cos money sucking tricks

  2. Hobson:

    I'll alert the media.

  3. Payette Police Chief Mark Clark:

    About 2 miles( 3.2 km) down the road, they looked back to see the house, which is on a hill, fully engulfed, but made no attempt to call 911 or alert the family, these people could have easily died in the fire.

  4. Alexander Pama:

    We will possibly raise a public storm alert in the capital Manila and suspend sea travel and fishing due to storm surge and up to 4-metre high waves at the open sea.

  5. Larissa McCollum:

    Our doctors call him a miracle. everybody was kind of on high alert getting ready for this unexpected delivery.

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#2145heavy
#2450alert
#2901slow
#4775stupid
#6793absent
#9125lazy
#10506inactive
#13293dull
#16111sleepy
#16485unaware
#29806sluggish
#33501oblivious
#47010drowsy
#68315lethargic
#162791dilatory
#175874unready

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