Synonyms for alert
əˈlɜrtalert

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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.

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

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

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1. alert

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

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

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1. alert, qui vivenoun

   condition of heightened watchfulness or preparation for action

   "bombers were put on alert during the crisis"

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

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

2. alert, alertingnoun

   a warning serves to make you more alert to danger

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

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

3. alarm, alert, warning signal, alarumadjective

   an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger

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

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

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"

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

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

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"

   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

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

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"

   Synonyms:
   alarm, dismay, appall, appal, horrify

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

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1. alertadjective

   Synonyms:
   watchful, vigilant, circumspect, wary, heedful, on the alert, on one's guard, on the watch, on the lookout

2. alertadjective

   Synonyms:
   active, brisk, nimble, agile, smart, lively, sprightly, spirited, supple, quick, spry, ready, prompt

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1. alertadjective

   Synonyms:
   vigilant, watchful, wary, attentive

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1. List of paraphrases for "alert":

   warning, alerts, alerting, vigilant, alarm, warn, preparedness, allergy, alerter, attentive, ultimatum, vigilance, early-warning, alertness, warnings, notify, watchful

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1. ALERT

   Synonyms:
   Cardiology Assessment of Lescol® (fluvastatin) in Renal Transplantation Neurology Adjunctive Lamictal in Epilepsy: Response to Treatment

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1. Mexican Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo:

   Thursday is about starting to work through the list of issues pending. The truth is the horizon going forward is a horizon of a couple of weeks, i think you need to be alert that if there's going to be rabbit for the stew, it's going to be at the end of April.

2. Dianne Feinstein:

   Southern California's inconceivable that with all the safety regulations we have in place today, a fire on a boat can lead to the loss of life we saw this morning, and we need to understand exactly how the crew was trained and, if they were awake and above-deck, why they were unable to alert or help rescue passengers.

3. Red Guards:

   I saw how miserable people could be without any rule of law, any protection of rights. It scarred me deeply, and since then I've always been on alert that our country can not return to that era, since Xi came to power, however, his language, ideas and actions are all harking back to the Cultural Revolution -- for us who have been through that period, we're very sensitive( to that shift).

4. Brett Goldstein:

   We are writing it like that, it was planned as three. Spoiler alert : everyone dies.

5. Gavin Newsom:

   Today, we are making a big leap forward in terms of focusing attention on prevention - were announcing the nations first comprehensive early alert system for earthquakes, were announcing the ability for millions and millions of Californians to download an app, MyShake... if millions of people do that, we will have points of contact, the ability to crowdsource information, the likes of which no country in the world has advanced.