Usually means: Alert and watchful for dangers.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. vigilant: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. vigilant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. vigilant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. vigilant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. vigilant: Vocabulary.com
  6. Vigilant, vigilant: Wordnik
  7. vigilant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. vigilant: Wiktionary
  9. vigilant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. vigilant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. vigilant: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. vigilant: Dictionary.com
  13. vigilant: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. vigilant: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Vigilant, Vigilant (novel), Vigilant (yacht), Vigilant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Vigilant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. vigilant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. vigilant: Rhymezone
  19. Vigilant, vigilant(e): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. vigilant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. vigilant: Free Dictionary
  22. vigilant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. vigilant: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vigilant: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Vigilant: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary
▸ adjective:  (heraldry, rare) In vigilance.

Similar:
alert, open-eyed, watchful, wakeful, Argus-eyed, wary, regardant, regardful, vigilantelike, warisome, more...

Opposite:
careless, inattentive, negligent, unobservant

Types:
watchful, attentive, observant, aware, conscious, cognizant, more...

Phrases:
hyper vigilant, Stinson L-1 Vigilant, Bell V-247 Vigilant, Vickers Vigilant, opposite of vigilant, more...

Adjectives:
extra, more, own, french, least, hyper, armed, war, populace, constant, english

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Similar:
alert, open-eyed, watchful, wakeful, Argus-eyed, wary, regardant, regardful, vigilantelike, warisome, more...

Opposite:
careless, inattentive, negligent, unobservant

Types:
watchful, attentive, observant, aware, conscious, cognizant, more...

Phrases:
hyper vigilant, Stinson L-1 Vigilant, Bell V-247 Vigilant, Vickers Vigilant, opposite of vigilant, not vigilant, someone who is vigilant, be vigilant, vigilant or alert, more...

Adjectives:
extra, more, own, french, least, hyper, armed, war, populace, constant, english

Colors:
    red,     orange,     yellow,     amber,     gold, more...



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