watchful eye
Alert, observant gaze
A watchful eye is careful, vigilant attention: She kept a watchful eye on the children at the pool.
The phrase emphasizes sustained observation, often protective or supervisory.
Someone under a watchful eye is being monitored, whether for safety or suspicion.
- vigilantKeenly aware of danger
- surveillanceSystematic observation of subjects
- gazeFixed, intent look
- alertWarning or watchfulness
- observantNoticing things readily
hawk · eagle eye · sentinel · guardian · on guard · scrutiny · close attention · monitoring · protective · keen · attentive · lookout · wary · oversee · patrol · inspect · piercing · unblinking
- Dystopia1984, Nineteen Eighty-Four, dystopian fiction, totalitarianism, Brave New World
- Shepherdingshepherd boy, shepherdess, crook, flock, herd
- keen observationhawk eye, sharp eye, trained eye, piercing gaze, hard look
- eye movementsgaze, blink, stare, glance, squint
- idiomstime flies, hit the sack, seize the day, ring a bell, break a leg
- eye imageryeye symbol
watchful eyeneglect
Failure to provide care
inattention · blind eye · obliviousness · heedlessness · disregard
watchful eyenegligence
Failure to exercise care
turning a blind eye · abandonment · dereliction · willful blindness · looking the other way
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