Definition of Alert
Verb: alert u'lurt
- Warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness
"We alerted the new neighbours to the high rate of burglaries";
- alarm
- Engaged in or accustomed to close observation
"alert enough to spot the opportunity when it came"; "constantly alert and vigilant, like a sentinel on duty"; "caught by a couple of alert cops";
- watchful
- Quick and energetic
- brisk, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippy
- Mentally perceptive and responsive
"an alert mind"; "alert to the problems";
- alive, awake, on the ball
- Condition of heightened watchfulness or preparation for action
"bombers were put on alert during the crisis";
- qui vive
- A warning serves to make you more alert to danger
- alerting
- An automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger
- alarm, warning signal, alarum [archaic]
Anagrams containing the word alert