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observant

Syllables: ob·ser·vant/əbˈzɜːvənt/US/əbˈzɝvənt/

observant adjective: alert and paying close attention; watchful.

Adjective

observant (comparative more observant, superlative most observant)

  1. Alert and paying close attention; watchful.
    • The observant police officer noticed that my tax disk was out-of-date.
  2. Diligently attentive in observing a law, custom, duty or principle; regardful; mindful.
    • I was normally observant of the local parking restrictions.
    • We are told how observant Alexander was of his master Aristotle.1644, Kenelme [i.e., Kenelm] Digby, Two Treatises. In the One of which, the Nature of Bodies; in the Other, the Nature of Mans Soule; is Looked into: In Way of Discovery, of the Immortality of...
  3. Practicing a religion.
    • She is an observant Catholic who goes to church regularly.

Noun capitalized: Observant

Observant (plural Observants)

  1. A member of a Franciscan order that strictly observes the rules of St. Francis.
    Synonyms:
    Observantine

observant meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

observant in Urdu

مبصر, تیز نظر

observant in Bengali

সতর্ক, মনোযোগী, নিয়মনিষ্ঠ

observant in Malayalam

നിരീക്ഷിക്കുന്ന, ശ്രദ്ധാപൂർവ്വം വീക്ഷിക്കുന്ന

observant in Kannada

ಪಾಲಿಸುವ, ಅನುಸರಿಸುವ, ಶ್ರದ್ಧೆಯಿಂದ ಆಚರಿಸುವ, ನಡೆಸುವ, ಬಹುಬೇಗ ಗಮನಿಸುವ, ಸೂಕ್ಷ್ಮಲಕ್ಷ್ಯದ
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observant in Gujarati
સતર્ક satark, સાવધાન sāvdhān

Examples of observant in a sentence

  • Observant visitors to any prison will quickly recognize commonalties in its inmate population.
  • I'm keeping an observant eye on that identical piece of goods myself.
  • Because the little bloke looked at them quite straight, so observant, and so indifferent.

All 12 example sentences with observant

Synonyms of observant

5 more synonymsFewer synonyms

Antonyms

All synonyms and antonyms of observant

Forms of observant

Adjective
comparativemore observant
superlativemost observant
Noun
pluralObservants

Origin of observant

Borrowed from French observant.

Words formed from observant

Questions about observant

What does observant mean?
Observant means alert and paying close attention; watchful.
What is observant in Urdu?
Observant in Urdu is مبصر, تیز نظر. See Observant meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is observant?
Observant can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce observant?
Observant is pronounced /əbˈzɝvənt/ (US).

Words near observant in the dictionary

  1. observances
  2. observancies
  3. observancy
  4. observanda
  5. observandum
  6. observant
  7. Observantine
  8. Observantines
  9. Observantism
  10. Observantist
  11. Observantists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: observant (page history and authors); Observant (page history and authors); observant (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); observant (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); observant (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); observant (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); સતર્ક (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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