What is another word for watchful?
264 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ w_ˈɒ_tʃ_f_əl], [ wˈɒt͡ʃfə͡l], [ wˈɒtʃfəl]Table of Contents
Similar words for watchful:- alert (adjective)
- anxious (adjective)
- awake (adjective)
- canny (adjective)
- cautious (adjective)
- chary (adjective)
- circumspect (adjective)
- conscious (adjective)
- defensive (adjective)
- discreet (adjective)
- economical (adjective)
- envious (adjective)
- expectant (adjective)
- guarded (adjective)
- parental (adjective)
- prompt (adjective)
- protective (adjective)
- regardful (adjective)
- self-conscious (adjective)
- sentient (adjective)
- suspicious (adjective)
- unsleeping (adjective)
- vigilant (adjective)
- wakeful (adjective)
- watched (adjective)
- wide-awake (adjective)
- awake (noun)
- watchful (noun)
- other synonyms
- protective
Definition for Watchful:
- Full of watch; vigilant; attentive; careful to observe closely; observant; cautious; -- with of before the thing to be regulated or guarded; as, to be watchful of one's behavior; and with against before the thing to be avoided; as, to be watchful against the growth of vicious habits.
Synonyms for Watchful:
adj.
•alert (adjective)- more careful,
- on job,
- on one toes,
- wisest,
- on ones toes,
- more jazzed,
- quickest,
- jazzed,
- on qui vive,
- most jazzed,
- quick,
- fast on draw,
- observant,
- more intelligent,
- fast the draw,
- fast draw.
- dis-quieted,
- most unglued,
- most butterflies,
- dis quieted,
- un easiest,
- most bugged,
- un-quieter,
- un easier,
- up tight,
- most choked,
- dis-tressed,
- up-tight,
- shot pieces,
- sweating bullets,
- wreckest,
- un quieter,
- most hyper,
- more disquieted,
- more unglued,
- un-glued,
- uneasy,
- more butterflies,
- most clutched,
- most spooked,
- troubled,
- un-easy,
- more hacked,
- most dreading,
- more spooked,
- in state,
- worried sick,
- un quietest,
- un easy,
- more dreading,
- un quiet,
- un glued,
- more nervous,
- more hyper,
- un-quiet,
- un-easiest,
- in tizzy,
- most hacked,
- dis tressed,
- un-easier,
- more bugged,
- over wrought,
- most disquieted,
- taut,
- un-quietest,
- more clutched,
- more choked,
- fidgety.
- more roused,
- most aroused,
- most roused,
- ex-cited,
- more aroused,
- most awakened,
- ex cited,
- more awakened.
- more streetwise,
- foxy,
- Worldlywise,
- nimble witted,
- quick witted,
- most streetwise,
- more nimble-witted,
- street smart,
- nimblewitted,
- most nimblewitted,
- more nimble witted,
- more acute,
- slick,
- heppest,
- shrewdest,
- most nimble witted,
- quickwitted,
- more nimblewitted,
- most nimble-witted.
- walking on eggs,
- taking it slow,
- safest,
- watching out,
- hedging one's bets,
- deliberate,
- watching one's step,
- pussyfoot,
- aware,
- forethoughtful,
- thinking twice,
- with one's eyes peeled,
- keeping on one's toes,
- provident,
- taking it easy,
- playing it cool,
- SAFER.
- most felt,
- in formed,
- most percipient,
- most apperceptive,
- more apprised,
- more felt,
- more informed,
- on to,
- more percipient,
- most witting,
- in-formed,
- more aesthetic,
- most supraliminal,
- more understanding,
- re cognizing,
- re-cognizing,
- supra-liminal,
- most recognizing,
- under standing,
- more apperceptive,
- more witting,
- more supraliminal,
- re-marking,
- most remarking,
- supra liminal,
- re marking,
- more recognizing,
- more remarking,
- able recognize,
- most apprised,
- under-standing.
- timesaving,
- pennypinching,
- money-saving,
- time-saving,
- work-saving,
- pennywise,
- niggardly,
- on the rims,
- unwasteful,
- meager,
- penurious,
- curmudgeonly,
- penny-wise.
- most overcareful,
- over careful,
- more overcareful,
- over-cautious,
- over cautious,
- more overcautious,
- most overcautious.
- most insulating,
- more conservational,
- most covering,
- more custodial,
- more emergency,
- most guardian,
- most custodial,
- more guardian,
- most shielding,
- more insulating,
- most emergency,
- more covering,
- most conservational,
- more shielding.
- not born yesterday lookout,
- un-believing,
- un believing,
- in credulous,
- in-credulous,
- not born yesterday the lookout,
- not born yesterday on lookout,
- more suspecting,
- most suspecting.
n.
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- awareness.
Other synonyms:
•protective
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Equivalence
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Adjective
careful.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
observant, thoughtful, cautious, vigilante, monitoring, supervised, wary, close.
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Antonyms for Watchful:
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adj.
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on the lookout
negligent, uncareful, unobservant, careless, heedless, thoughtless, rash, incautious, indiscreet.
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Other antonyms:
preoccupied, dreaming, unready, heavy, engrossed, drowsy, oblivious, inactive, absorbed, sluggish, inattentive, daydreaming, dreamy, insensible, slow, unheeding, dull, unconscious, unwitting, dazed, unmindful, unaware, faraway, sleeping, unthinking, unprepared, asleep.
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on the lookout
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Other antonyms:
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lidded, unalert, unvigilant, unwatchful.
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n.