Reverse Dictionary: VIGILANT

ADJECTIVES
► EYEFUL observant, vigilant; later, careful → 1594 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► WAKER unsleeping, watchful, vigilant → c1000 obs.
► WAKERIFE indisposed to sleep, wakeful, vigilant, watchful → c1480 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► WARE prepared, on one’s guard, watchful, vigilant, cautious, alert → c1000 arch.

INTERJECTIONS
► EYE-EYE! look out!; also used as a warning that a prisoner is under surveillance, or as an injunction to be vigilant → 1950 UK sl.

NOUNS
► ADVIGILANCY watchfulness, vigilance, care → 1577-87 obs.
► INVIGILANCY absence of vigilance or watchfulness → E17 obs.
► I-WARNESS watchfulness, vigilance, wariness → a1250 obs.
► KEEVEE ► KEEVIE ► KEEVY attention, alertness, vigilance → 1843 Sc.
► WARENESS cautiousness, vigilance → 971 obs.
► WATCH watchfulness, vigilance → a1400 obs.

VERBS
► BE ALL EYES to watch attentively; to be keenly observant; to be alert and vigilant → a1616
► SHARPEN UP YOUR GAME to be vigilant → 1960s Amer. sl.
► SKIN ONE’S EYES to be vigilant, on the lookout → 1860 Amer. dial.
► WAKE to be active, alert, stirring, vigilant; also, to be diligent, to exert oneself to do something → 1352 obs.