456 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ wˈɒt͡ʃfə͡l], [ wˈɒt‍ʃfə‍l], [ w_ˈɒ_tʃ_f_əl]

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)
• intent (adjective)
• jealous (adjective)
• knowing (adjective)
• mindful (adjective)
• motherly (adjective)
• on guard (adjective)
• on one's guard (adjective)
• on the ball (adjective)
• on the lookout (adjective)
• open-eyed (adjective)
• other relevant words (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)
• on guard (adverb)
• awake (noun)
• on guard (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• other relevant words (verb)
• other synonyms
• maternal
• other relevant words
• protective

Paraphrases for watchful

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.
  • anxious (adjective)
  • 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.
  • awake (adjective)
  • more roused,
  • most aroused,
  • most roused,
  • ex-cited,
  • more aroused,
  • most awakened,
  • ex cited,
  • more awakened.
  • canny (adjective)
  • 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.
  • cautious (adjective)
  • 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.
  • chary (adjective)
  • re-strained,
  • re strained.
  • circumspect (adjective)
  • judicious,
  • politic,
  • thoughtful,
  • diplomatic,
  • discretionary,
  • solicitous,
  • considerate,
  • discriminatory.
  • conscious (adjective)
  • 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.
  • defensive (adjective)
  • on guard.
  • discreet (adjective)
  • not rash,
  • having foresight,
  • like a clam,
  • Precautious,
  • on lookout,
  • non-committal.
  • economical (adjective)
  • timesaving,
  • pennypinching,
  • money-saving,
  • time-saving,
  • work-saving,
  • pennywise,
  • niggardly,
  • on the rims,
  • unwasteful,
  • meager,
  • penurious,
  • curmudgeonly,
  • penny-wise.
  • envious (adjective)
  • fain,
  • green with envy,
  • longing for.
  • expectant (adjective)
  • raring,
  • pre pared,
  • more waiting,
  • most waiting,
  • pre-pared.
  • guarded (adjective)
  • most overcareful,
  • over careful,
  • more overcareful,
  • over-cautious,
  • over cautious,
  • more overcautious,
  • most overcautious.
  • intent (adjective)
  • more concentrating,
  • hell-bent,
  • hell bent,
  • most minding,
  • most riveted,
  • most concentrating,
  • in-tensest,
  • in tense,
  • most resolved,
  • more riveted,
  • in-tenser,
  • in-tense,
  • wrapped up,
  • in tent,
  • in tenser,
  • more minding,
  • re-solved,
  • in-tent,
  • more resolved.
  • jealous (adjective)
  • mistrustful,
  • Possessory,
  • grabby,
  • doubting.
  • knowing (adjective)
  • Sophic,
  • tuned-in,
  • with-it,
  • well-informed.
  • mindful (adjective)
  • know ins outs,
  • more observative,
  • plugged in,
  • in know,
  • know all answers,
  • most observative,
  • be upon,
  • know answers.
  • motherly (adjective)
  • most caretaking,
  • most nurturing,
  • more nurturing,
  • more caretaking.
  • on guard (adjective)
  • preservative,
  • guarding,
  • safeguarding.
  • on one's guard (adjective)
  • upon one's guard.
  • on the ball (adjective)
  • on stick,
  • on ball.
  • on the lookout (adjective)
  • ready,
  • see after,
  • not missing a trick,
  • glued,
  • hooked,
  • see to,
  • unsleeping,
  • open-eyed,
  • prepared.
  • open-eyed (adjective)
  • openeyed.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • supraliminal,
  • wise to,
  • observing,
  • Observative,
  • Riveted,
  • custodial,
  • intent,
  • hep to,
  • parental,
  • nimble-witted,
  • alive to,
  • mindful,
  • on the lookout,
  • not born yesterday on the lookout,
  • percipient,
  • overcareful,
  • envious,
  • over-careful,
  • in a state,
  • protective,
  • in the right mind,
  • advertent,
  • know all the answers,
  • with eyes peeled,
  • conscious,
  • in right mind,
  • strung out,
  • alert,
  • in the know,
  • worldly wise,
  • knowing,
  • handling with kid gloves,
  • caretaking,
  • Butterflies,
  • canny,
  • over-wrought,
  • Hacked,
  • wary,
  • having fancy footwork,
  • discreet,
  • wakeful,
  • sensitive to,
  • Watched,
  • witting,
  • looking for,
  • in on,
  • know ins and outs,
  • overcautious,
  • suspicious,
  • on the button,
  • on the dot,
  • wrecker,
  • wide-awake,
  • know the answers,
  • hep,
  • attentive,
  • Surveillant,
  • sentient,
  • be up on,
  • fast on the draw,
  • in doubt,
  • all ears,
  • economical,
  • on one's toes,
  • heads up,
  • on the stick,
  • on one's guard,
  • shot to pieces,
  • able to recognize,
  • hyper,
  • in a tizzy,
  • in suspense,
  • on tenterhooks,
  • on the job,
  • Arrect,
  • on toes,
  • anxious,
  • hellbent,
  • regardful,
  • jealous,
  • switched on,
  • psyched up,
  • guarded,
  • Conservational,
  • be on,
  • Hepper,
  • with bated breath,
  • chary,
  • Intentive,
  • cautious,
  • circumspect,
  • without faith,
  • tuned in,
  • without belief,
  • expectant,
  • on the ball,
  • streetwise,
  • unglued,
  • on the qui vive,
  • good hands.
  • parental (adjective)
  • maternal,
  • patriarchal,
  • matriarchal.
  • prompt (adjective)
  • on dot,
  • instantaneous,
  • un hesitating,
  • prompt,
  • un-hesitating,
  • on button.
  • protective (adjective)
  • 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.
  • regardful (adjective)
  • most advertent,
  • more advertent,
  • most arrect,
  • more arrect,
  • most intentive,
  • more intentive.
  • self-conscious (adjective)
  • self-aware.
  • sentient (adjective)
  • most feeling,
  • more feeling.
  • suspicious (adjective)
  • 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.
  • unsleeping (adjective)
  • un-sleeping,
  • un sleeping.
  • vigilant (adjective)
  • particular,
  • fastidious,
  • sharp-eyed,
  • conscientious,
  • thorough,
  • responsible,
  • fussy,
  • exacting,
  • strict,
  • finical.
  • wakeful (adjective)
  • on the alert,
  • on alert,
  • Insomnious.
  • watched (adjective)
  • most patrolled,
  • most surveillant,
  • more surveillant,
  • more patrolled.
  • wide-awake (adjective)
  • wide-eyed,
  • bright-eyed and bushy-tailed,
  • wideawake.

• adv

  • on guard (adverb)
  • on watch,
  • on the watch.

• n.

  •
  • regard,
  • attention,
  • fixated,
  • attention span,
  • under someone's critical eye,
  • focused.
  •
  • awareness.
  • awake (noun)
  • awake.
  • on guard (noun)
  • keen.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • prudential,
  • insomniac,
  • safe,
  • precise,
  • belt,
  • precisely,
  • minutely,
  • gingerly,
  • punctilious,
  • price-conscious,
  • vigilance,
  • conservative,
  • circumspect wary,
  • careful,
  • sleepless,
  • narrowly,
  • due diligence,
  • leery,
  • rigorous,
  • vigilant,
  • rigour,
  • better,
  • diligent,
  • argus-eyed,
  • slowly,
  • methodical,
  • meticulous,
  • measured,
  • once,
  • risk-averse,
  • carefully,
  • sedulous,
  • askance,
  • scrupulous,
  • heedful.

• v.

  • Other relevant words: (verb)
  • behaviour.

• Other synonyms:

  • maternal
  • motherly.
  • Other relevant words:
  • prudent.
  • protective
  • defensive.

Paraphrases for Watchful:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    careful.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    cautious, close, monitoring, observant, supervised, thoughtful, vigilante, wary.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    alert, attentive, mindful, sensitive.