Word Meanings - VIGILANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Attentive to discover and avoid danger, or to provide for safety; wakeful; watchful; circumspect; wary. "Be sober, be vigilant." 1 Pet. v. 8. Sirs, take your places, and be vigilant. Shak.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of VIGILANT)
- Alert
- Active
- brisk
- nimble
- prepared
- prompt
- vigilant
- ready
- wakeful
- watchful
- on the watch
- lively
- Circumspect
- Cautious
- wary
- careful
- heedful
- attentive
- prudent
- scrupulous
- Wary
- Suspicious
- cautious
- guarded
- circumspect
- Watchful
- Vigilant
- expectant
- observant
Related words: (words related to VIGILANT)
- LIVELY
1. Endowed with or manifesting life; living. Chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves. Holland. 2. Brisk; vivacious; active; as, a lively youth. But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haste, With youthful steps Much livelier - PROMPT-BOOK
The book used by a prompter of a theater. - GUARDIAN
One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs. Of the several species of guardians, the first are guardians by nature. -- viz., - GUARDIANSHIP
The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch. - CIRCUMSPECTNESS
Vigilance un guarding against evil from every quarter; caution. forces circumspectness on those abroad, who at home are nursed in security. Sir H. Wotton. - WATCHET
Pale or light blue. "Watchet mantles." Spenser. Who stares in Germany at watchet eyes Dryden. - WATCHDOG
A dog kept to watch and guard premises or property, and to give notice of the approach of intruders. - WATCHHOUSE
1. A house in which a watch or guard is placed. 2. A place where persons under temporary arrest by the police of a city are kept; a police station; a lockup. - GUARDIANESS
A female guardian. I have placed a trusty, watchful guardianess. Beau. & Fl. - GUARDIANLESS
Without a guardian. Marston. - GUARDER
One who guards. - WATCHWORD
1. A word given to sentinels, and to such as have occasion to visit the guards, used as a signal by which a friend is known from an enemy, or a person who has a right to pass the watch from one who has not; a countersign; a password. 2. A sentiment - WATCH MEETING
A religious meeting held in the closing hours of the year. - GUARDANT
See GARDANT (more info) 1. Acting as guardian. Shak. - PROMPTLY
In a prompt manner. - BRISK
1. Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick. Cheerily, boys; be brick awhile. Shak. Brick toil alternating with ready ease. Wordworth. 2. Full of spirit of life; effervescas, brick - GUARDS
A body of picked troops; as, "The Household Guards." - PREPARATIVELY
By way of preparation. - OBSERVANTLY
In an observant manner. - READY-MADE
Made already, or beforehand, in anticipation of need; not made to order; as, ready-made clothing; ready-made jokes. - SELF-ACTIVE
Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents. - CHYLIFACTIVE
Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle. - COUNTERACTIVE
Tending to counteract. - IMPREPARATION
Want of preparation. Hooker. - COUNTERGUARD
A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire. - RETROACTIVE
Fitted or designed to retroact; operating by returned action; affecting what is past; retrospective. Beddoes. Retroactive law or statute , one which operates to make criminal or punishable, or in any way expressly to affect, acts done prior to - DETRACTIVE
1. Tending to detractor draw. 2. Tending to lower in estimation; depreciative. - OVERREADY
Too ready. -- O"ver*read"*i*ly, adv. -- O"ver*read"i*ness, n. - REFRACTIVE
Serving or having power to refract, or turn from a direct course; pertaining to refraction; as, refractive surfaces; refractive powers. Refractive index. See Index of refraction, under Index. -- Absolute refractive index , the index of refraction