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hypervigilant

a. In a state of hypervigilance.

Usage examples of "hypervigilant".

The traffic on the street and sidewalks forced Jarret to remain hypervigilant for any sighting of Nathaniel Houston or Detra Kelly.

Gianini and I will have to be hypervigilant for the next seven months.

Their slow, low-key morning also kept Becca from moving into an overstimulated, hypervigilant state, so she could sleep.

Never being able to tell what was coming his way next, Sam became a hypervigilant, paranoid child.