ALERT Synonyms

• (often followed by `to') giving care or attention

• taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention

• (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception

• bearing in mind; attentive to

• a funeral lament sung with loud wailing

• having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions

• intense or sharp

• excellent

• painful as if caused by a sharp instrument

• having a sharp cutting edge or point

• express grief verbally

• paying close attention especially to details

• quick to notice; showing quick and keen perception

• (of individuals) adhering strictly to laws and rules and customs

• a cue given to a performer (usually the beginning of the next line to be spoken)

• (computer science) a symbol that appears on the computer screen to indicate that the computer is ready to receive a command

• according to schedule or without delay; on time

• ready and willing or quick to act

• performed with little or no delay

• give an incentive for action

• serve as the inciting cause of

• assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned

• any area of the body that is highly sensitive to pain (as the flesh underneath the skin or a fingernail or toenail)

• with little or no delay

• accomplished rapidly and without delay

• hurried and brief

• moving quickly and lightly

• apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity

• performed with little or no delay

• easily aroused or excited

• containing or using responses; alternating

• readily reacting or replying to people or events or stimuli; showing emotion

• reacting to a stimulus

• keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point

• having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing

• (of a musical note) raised in pitch by one chromatic semitone

• a musical notation indicating one half step higher than the note named

• a long thin sewing needle with a sharp point

• changing suddenly in direction and degree

• (of something seen or heard) clearly defined

• ending in a sharp point

• having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions

• marked by practical hardheaded intelligence

• harsh

• having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones

• dangerously steep

• very sudden and in great amount or degree

• quick and forceful

• carefully observant or attentive; on the lookout for possible danger

• fear resulting from the awareness of danger

• a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event

• an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger

• a clock that wakes a sleeper at some preset time

• fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised

• warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness

• an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger

• a state of readiness to respond

• a warning serves to make you more alert to danger

• possessing life

• having life or vigor or spirit

• (often followed by `with') full of life and spirit

• (followed by `to' or `of') aware of

• in operation

• mentally perceptive and responsive

• capable of erupting

• not in a state of sleep; completely conscious

• mentally perceptive and responsive

• stop sleeping

• quick and energetic

• imparting vitality and energy

• very active

• become brisk

• full of life and energy

• full of zest or vigor

• quick and energetic

• elastic; rebounds readily

• filled with events or activity

• full of spirit; full of life

• full of or showing high-spirited merriment

• offering fun and gaiety

• quick and energetic

• a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders)

• used to give emphasis

• extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers

• quick and energetic

• apt to speak irritably

• smart and fashionable

• pleasantly cold and invigorating

• marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners

• quick and energetic