Definition of Watchful

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Watchful

Full of watch; vigilant; attentive; careful to observe closely; observant; cautious; -- with of before the thing to be regulated or guarded; as, to be watchful of one's behavior; and with against before the thing to be avoided; as, to be watchful against the growth of vicious habits.

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Watchful Quotations

Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.
Andrew Jackson

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.
Aeschylus

There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen.
Leland Stanford

But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.
William Godwin

Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.
Ruth Gordon

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
James Thomson

Watchful Translations

watchful in French is vigilant
watchful in German is wachsamen, wachsam
watchful in Italian is vigile
watchful in Spanish is vigilante, en vela
watchful in Swedish is vaksam

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