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. Kris Ruby:

   The people who have created these apps need to be on high alert during this time either through investment in AI, people and/ or both, some discussions on social media are healthy if they allow space for civil discourse and dialogue. But there is a difference between dialogue and all-out social media war.

2. Alice Honig:

   Receptive language is the one you want to be alert to.

3. Ilian Vassilev:

   This (investigation) looks like part of the attack against Overgas, instead of attacking Gazprom Export for not delivering on its contract, the government was content to criticise a Bulgarian company for failing to alert the state earlier.

4. Agnes Repplier:

   It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.

5. Anne Woods:

   Reuters Health let them be seen as people, not as patients, the family knew they were seen, and the patients who were alert knew they were seen as people, and that they mattered.