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Synonyms for vigilant
ˈvɪdʒ ə ləntvig·i·lant
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Wiktionary
vigilantadjective
Synonyms:
alert, watchful, on the qui vive, wary, awarevigilantadjective
Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary
Be vigilant for signs of disease in your garden.
Synonyms:
alert, aware, watchful, wary, on the qui vive
English Synonyms and Antonyms
vigilant
Vigilant implies more sustained activity and more intelligent volition than alert; one may be habitually alert by reason of native quickness of perception and thought, or one may be momentarily alert under some excitement or expectancy; one who is vigilant is so with thoughtful purpose. One is vigilant against danger or harm; he may be alert or watchful for good as well as against evil; he is wary in view of suspected stratagem, trickery, or treachery. A person may be wakeful because of some merely physical excitement or excitability, as through insomnia; yet he may be utterly careless and negligent in his wakefulness, the reverse of watchful; a person who is truly watchful must keep himself wakeful while on watch, in which case wakeful has something of mental quality. Watchful, from the Saxon, and vigilant, from the Latin, are almost exact equivalents; but vigilant has somewhat more of sharp definiteness and somewhat more suggestion of volition; one may be habitually watchful; one is vigilant of set purpose and for direct cause, as in the presence of an enemy. Compare ALERT.
Synonyms:
alert, awake, careful, cautious, circumspect, on the alert, on the lookout, sleepless, wakeful, wary, watchful, wide-awakeAntonyms:
careless, drowsy, dull, heedless, inattentive, incautious, inconsiderate, neglectful, negligent, oblivious, thoughtless, unwary
Princeton's WordNet
argus-eyed, open-eyed, vigilant, wakefuladjective
carefully observant or attentive; on the lookout for possible danger
"a policy of open-eyed awareness"; "the vigilant eye of the town watch"; "there was a watchful dignity in the room"; "a watchful parent with a toddler in tow"
Synonyms:
keen-sighted, wakeful, waking, open-eyed, sharp-eyed, hawk-eyed, light, argus-eyed, sharp-sighted, lynx-eyed, quick-sightedAntonyms:
unwatchful, unvigilant, unalert
Editors Contribution
cautious
i would be cautious about walking there after dark.
Submitted by Soulwriter on June 13, 2021
Dictionary of English Synonymes
vigilantadjective
Synonyms:
watchful, circumspect, on the lookout, wide awake, on the alert
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
vigilantadjective
Synonyms:
watchful, attentive, circumspect, wakeful
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#5469 | careful | |
#13247 | awake | |
#16143 | waking | |
#18081 | cautious | |
#22516 | wary | |
#24291 | attentive | |
#29889 | vigilance | |
#30529 | vigilant | |
#33301 | sleepless | |
#37517 | watchful | |
#46023 | vigilante | |
#47485 | alertness | |
#102967 | circumspect | |
#159147 | policer | |
#169023 | wakeful |
How to use vigilant in a sentence?
We must also be vigilant against bigoted or dangerous ideologies masquerading as policy, and that includes BDS.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern:
But we must remain vigilant if we are to keep it that way.
Sky News reported. Duncan Craig, a sexual abuse survivor who founded online support group Survivors Manchester, told Sky News police need to be more vigilant when Sky News comes to sex offenders. Duncan Craig also requestedtransparency on behalf of victims. Victims deserve the right to know that those that have committed these crimes against them are being dealt with correctly and managed properly.
Now is the time to be even more vigilant, we all welcome the plateauing and the signs of declines we are seeing in some places ... but that should not be a reason for complacency.
Recent observations by our men and women on the ground highlight that the ISIS population being evacuated from the remaining vestiges of the caliphate largely remain unrepentant, unbroken and radicalized. We will need to maintain a vigilant offensive against this now widely dispersed and disaggregated organization that includes leaders, fighters, facilitators, resources and, of course, their toxic ideology.
Translations for vigilant
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- اليقظةArabic
- зорък, бдителенBulgarian
- vigilantCatalan, Valencian
- wachsam, umsichtig, aufmerksamGerman
- προσεχτικόςGreek
- vigilanteSpanish
- valpas, varuillaFinnish
- vigilantFrench
- जागरूकHindi
- զգաստ, զգոնArmenian
- waspadaIndonesian
- vigilanteItalian
- 警戒するJapanese
- vigilantiLatin
- modrsLatvian
- oppmerksom, forsiktigNorwegian
- czujnyPolish
- VigilânciaPortuguese
- vigilent, precaut, atentRomanian
- бдительныйRussian
- försiktig, uppmärksamSwedish
- விழிப்புடன்Tamil
- ระแวดระวังThai
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