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watchful

adj
/ˈwɒt͡ʃ.fəl/UK/ˈwɔt͡ʃ.fəl/US

Etymology

From Middle English waccheful, equivalent to watch + -ful. Compare West Frisian waaks (“watchful”), Dutch waaks, waakzaam (“watchful”), German wachsam (“watchful”), Swedish vaksam (“watchful”).

  1. inherited from waccheful

Definitions

  1. Fully observant, vigilant, or aware.

    • The teacher kept a watchful eye on her pupils during the school trip.
    • But there was so much at stake that I had to take some risk—though even when I was far away there has never been a day when the Shire has not been guarded by watchful eyes.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at watchful. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at watchful. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at watchful

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA