Qualities

Synonyms for vigilant

The synonym for vigilant recorded in this bank is watchful, in the sense "carefully observant or attentive". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · adjective · a wrong tile in 3 puzzles

The synonym for vigilant

watchfuladjective, in the sense "carefully observant or attentive"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for vigilant.

The senseadjectiveTier 3, RidgelineQualities

carefully observant or attentive

The guard stayed vigilant through the long night shift.

The sentence the game shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

watchful

Same sentence, swapped: The guard stayed watchful through the long night shift.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where vigilant stands in the sentence above.

primed
groomed
ripe

Where vigilant turns up in the game

vigilant is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where vigilant is the trap

lethargicadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is sluggish, in the sense "in a state of sluggishness, lacking energy", with vigilant sitting one tile away.
comatoseadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is stuporous, in the sense "in a state of deep unconsciousness, or informally, extreme sluggish inactivity", with vigilant sitting one tile away.
complacentadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is blase, in the sense "in a state of smug self-satisfaction, unconcerned about problems", and vigilant is one of the three tiles that lose.

Play vigilant

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so vigilant reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Everything on it is a stored field, not a run-time composition.

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Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else

vigilant is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 3. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.

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