Argus-eyed

Definition: Argus-eyed

Argus-eyed

Adjective

1. Having very keen vision; "quick-sighted as a cat".

2. Carefully observant or attentive; on the lookout for possible danger; "a policy of open-eyed awareness"; "the vigilant eye of the town watch"; "there was a watchful dignity in the room"; "a watchful parent with a toddler in tow".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Argus-eyed

Care

Guarded, on one's guard; on the qui vivre, on the alert, on watch, on the lookout; awake, broad awake, vigilant; watchful, wakeful, wistful; Argus-eyed; wide awake; (intelligent); on the watch for (expectant).

Albanian

vigjilent (alert, unwinking, vigilant, wakeful, watchful). (various references)

Bulgarian 

зорък (watchful), проницателен (acute, astute, clairvoyant, clear-sighted, discerning, discriminating, discriminative, long-headed, penetrating, penetrative, perspicacious, piercing, profound, sagacious, sharp-sighted, shrewd, wise). (various references)

Hungarian

árgus szemû. (various references)

Pig Latin

argus-eyeday.(various references)

Portuguese

atento (attentive, careful, hawk-eyed, intent, mindful, observant, regardful, wary, watchful), vigilante (acock, awake, hawk-eyed, observant, on the alert, open-eyed, pop-eyed, unsleeping, unwinking, vigilant, wakeful, waking, watchful). (various references)

Russian 

бдительный (alert, hawk-eyed, open-eyed, unsleeping, unwinking, vigilant, wakeful, waking, ware, watchful, wide awake, wide-awake). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

oprezan (alert, careful, chary, circumspect, circumspective, deliberate, discreet, measured, vigilant, ware, wary, wide awake), budan (awake, sleepless, unsleeping, vigilant, wakeful, ware, watchful). (various references)

Swedish

argusögon. (various references)

Turkish

uyanık (alert, astir, awake, aware, canny, conscious, enterprising, fly, guarded, heady, leery, nimble, on the alert, open-eyed, sharp, shrewd, sleepless, smart, unwinking, vigilant, wakeful, waking, wary, watchful, wide awake, with it), tetikte (at full cock, aware, guarded, on the alert, quick on the trigger, unwinking, vigilant, wakeful, watchful), dikkatli (assiduous, attentive, canny, careful, cautious, circumspect, gingerly, heedful, intense, intent, mindful, particular, regardful, rigorous, scrupulous, sleepless, solicitous, studious, thoughtful, wary, watchful). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: dasyure, desugar, dragees, gaudery, greased, sugared.

-3 letters: agreed, agrees, argued, argues, augers, derays, dragee, eagers, eagres, edgers, erased, geared, geyser, grades, gradus, grayed, grease, greasy, greeds, greedy, greyed, guards, gyrase, ragees, redyes, reseau, reseda, reused, sauger, seared, segued, sudary, sugary, surged, urease, yagers.

-4 letters: aedes, agers, agree, agues, argue, argus, auger, aures, dares.

+5 letters: daguerreotypes, pseudepigraphy.