Unscramble alert

Definition of alert

adjective:

• 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". Synonyms: watchful. Antonyms: unalert.
• 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". Synonyms: brisk, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippy.
• 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". Synonyms: alive, awake.

noun:

• condition of heightened watchfulness or preparation for action; "bombers were put on alert during the crisis". Synonyms: qui vive.
• a warning serves to make you more alert to danger. Synonyms: alerting.
• an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger. Synonyms: alarm, alarum, warning signal.

verb:

• 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". Synonyms: alarm.

Related words

foghorn, fogsignal, horn, siren, tocsin, torpedo, wake.

Words nearby

albert, aleut, avert.

Rhymes with

assert, avert, blurt, burt, cert, chert, concert, convert, curt, desert, dessert, dirt, disconcert, divert, divert, evert, exert, flirt, hurt, inert.