Antonyms for alert
əˈlɜrtalert

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

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.

   Antonyms:
   drowsy, dull, heavy, inactive, slow, sluggish, stupid

   Synonyms:
   active, brisk, hustling, lively, nimble, on the watch, prepared, prompt, ready, vigilant, watchful, wide-awake

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. alert

   Antonyms:
   slow, sleepy, lazy, absent, unready, oblivious, sluggish, inactive, unwatchful, dilatory, drowsy

   Synonyms:
   active, brisk, nimble, prepared, prompt, vigilant, ready, wakeful, watchful, on the watch, lively

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1. • Warn

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1. alert, qui vivenoun

   condition of heightened watchfulness or preparation for action

   "bombers were put on alert during the crisis"

   Antonyms:
   unalert, unvigilant, incognizant, lethargic, unenrgetic, unwatchful, unaware

   Synonyms:
   alarm, warning signal, alarum, alerting, qui vive

2. alert, alertingnoun

   a warning serves to make you more alert to danger

   Antonyms:
   unenrgetic, unalert, unwatchful, incognizant, unaware, unvigilant, lethargic

   Synonyms:
   alarm, warning signal, alarum, alerting, qui vive, alertness

3. alarm, alert, warning signal, alarumadjective

   an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger

   Antonyms:
   unenrgetic, incognizant, unwatchful, lethargic, unalert, unvigilant, unaware

   Synonyms:
   warning device, alarum, warning signal, consternation, alarm clock, alarm, qui vive, alarm system, alerting, dismay

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"

   Antonyms:
   unvigilant, unaware, unenrgetic, unwatchful, unalert, lethargic, incognizant

   Synonyms:
   alive(p), sleepless, spanking, insomniac, zippy, awake(p), brisk, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, watchful

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"

   Antonyms:
   unaware, unvigilant, incognizant, lethargic, unenrgetic, unalert, unwatchful

   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

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"

   Antonyms:
   lethargic, unenrgetic, unalert, unaware, unvigilant, incognizant, unwatchful

   Synonyms:
   alarm, dismay, appall, appal, horrify

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1. alertadjective

   Synonyms:
   vigilant, watchful, wary, attentive

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ALERT

   Synonyms:
   Cardiology Assessment of Lescol® (fluvastatin) in Renal Transplantation Neurology Adjunctive Lamictal in Epilepsy: Response to Treatment

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. dazed

   awake and alert no longer dazed

   john was dazed after he hit his head after some rest john became more alert over time.

   Submitted by anonymous on November 19, 2019  

2. drowsy

   it is an antonyms for sleepy.

   he stayed alert.

   Submitted by anonymous on November 17, 2019  

3. sleepy

   Submitted by rinat on October 3, 2019  

How to use alert in a sentence?

1. Tulsi Gabbard:

   This alert turned out to be false, but the reason we reacted the way we did is that the threat is real, our leaders have failed us and brought us to this point. It doesn't have to be this way. We have to correct our course. We have to end this new cold war and nuclear arms race that is currently being waged that threatens our very future and that costs us trillions of our taxpayer dollars -- dollars that need to be spent and invested to serve the needs of our people here at home.

2. Jeb Bush & Associates:

   This release will show voters how I earned a living over the past three decades and how much of that living I had to give back to Uncle Sam. (Spoiler alert: a lot).

3. Sediq Seddiqi:

   The minister was very serious to instruct police to provide maximum security to prisons in vulnerable areas, they are on high alert.

4. Angela Rocha:

   The whole world needs to be on high alert now, we still don't know what other proportions it could take.

5. Riki Ellison:

   They (the Iranians) were on full alert to shoot down anything that resembled a U.S. aircraft. Somebody made a mistake by identifying it as a warplane.

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