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ever-watchful

ever-watchful adjective: constantly vigilant.

Adjective

ever-watchful (not comparable)

  1. Constantly vigilant
    • But we must not forget the ever-watchful care which comes to us day by day when there is no emergency and when no special danger is in sight.1920, The Sabbath Recorder, volume 89, page 132
    • […] it had to maintain an ever-watchful eye on expenditure; […].1946 July and August, K. Westcott Jones, “Isle of Wight Central Railway—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 244

Forms of ever-watchful

alternative formever watchful
alternative formeverwatchful

Origin of ever-watchful

From ever + watchful.

Questions about ever-watchful

What does ever-watchful mean?
Ever-watchful means constantly vigilant.
What part of speech is ever-watchful?
Ever-watchful is an adjective.

Words near ever-watchful in the dictionary

  1. ever-shifting
  2. ever-smoker
  3. ever-smokers
  4. ever-so-
  5. ever-varying
  6. ever-watchful
  7. Everage
  8. Everages
  9. Everard
  10. everbearer
  11. everbearers

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