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. Carol Edwards:

   I really do think it’s the tip of the iceberg. This is the door swinging wide open, and now we need to collaborate with those in the science world and figure out where we can take this, there’s been a lot of chatter, even in the very beginning of this project, talking about what other diseases they could do. We’ve talked about TB, we’ve talked about flu A and B, possibly for this next flu season, seeing if we can get the dogs to alert on that.

2. Richard Richards:

   Anyone opposed to ballot security obviously must be supportive of election fraud, we would have been cheated out of that race if we hadn't been alert.

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. Tina Wilson:

   There were no spotters on the ground. There was nothing to alert the personnel that this rider was in trouble, he had nothing but fear of knowing that he was going to fall.

5. Adbert Alzolay:

   I saw more guys in the dugout today wearing the face masks, even to the practice, I saw guys wearing the face masks all the time. I feel that as a group we’re doing a really good job of keeping the distance between each other and following those protocols after this COVID-19 alert we’ve been having for the last three, four days.