unwatchful

1. 1.

   not alert to what is potentially dangerous

   Synonymsunalertunvigilant

Questions about unwatchful

What does unwatchful mean?

unwatchful means "not alert to what is potentially dangerous".

How many syllables are in unwatchful?

unwatchful has 3 syllables and divides as un-watch-ful under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for unwatchful?

Close synonyms include unalert, unvigilant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is unwatchful a common word?

unwatchful is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.