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nonalert

nonalert adjective: not alert; inattentive or relaxed.

Adjective

nonalert (comparative more nonalert, superlative most nonalert)

  1. Not alert; inattentive or relaxed.
    • These results also include an assumption that the alert or at-sea rates for bombers, mobile ICBMs, and submarines are set initially at 100 percent and then decreased proportionally as the nonalert rate is increased.2000, Stephen J. Cimbala, Deterrence and Nuclear Proliferation in the Twenty-First Century, page 82
    • The duration of nonalert waking states, defined as those times when the baby's eyes are open but have a vacant look, was inversely correlated with the overall stability of State (Becker & Thoman, 1983).2001, Holly Alliger Ruff, Mary Klevjord Rothbart, Attention in Early Development, page 224

Forms of nonalert

comparativemore nonalert
superlativemost nonalert

Origin of nonalert

From non- + alert.

Questions about nonalert

What does nonalert mean?
Nonalert means not alert; inattentive or relaxed.
What part of speech is nonalert?
Nonalert is an adjective.

Words near nonalert in the dictionary

  1. nonalcoholics
  2. nonalcohols
  3. nonaldermanic
  4. nonalead
  5. nonaleatory
  6. nonalert
  7. nonalertable
  8. nonalethic
  9. nonalgal
  10. nonalgebraic
  11. nonalgebraically

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