The Collaborative International Dictionary
Watchful \Watch"ful\, a.
Full of watch; vigilant; attentive; careful to observe
closely; observant; cautious; -- with of before the thing to
be regulated or guarded; as, to be watchful of one's
behavior; and with against before the thing to be avoided;
as, to be watchful against the growth of vicious habits.
``Many a watchful night.''
--Shak. ``Happy watchful
shepherds.''
--Milton.
'Twixt prayer and watchful love his heart dividing.
--Keble.
Syn: Vigilant; attentive; cautious; observant; circumspect; wakeful; heedful. [1913 Webster] -- Watch"ful*ly, adv. -- Watch"ful*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In a watchful manner.
WordNet
adv. in a watchful manner [syn: vigilantly]
Usage examples of "watchfully".
Then they slept, and when darkness fell the men mounted their black horses and slipped into the night, the great moorhound trotting watchfully ahead.
Her shallow dreams were beset with dead dogs that stood watchfully between herself and Ralph or horridly danced with bells strapped to their rigid legs.
Anla, sat watchfully on her shoulder, its earlike tufts standing erect above the round, yellow eyes.
The man behind her began to move watchfully to the side, as Elsevier and Cress got to their feet together.
Moving cautiously, watchfully, Purga left the shelter of the fern, and scurried across the scrubby floodplain, through the devastated track left by the anatotitan herd, until she reached the security of the trees.
His eyes were starting to ache a little with the strain of keeping themselves glued watchfully to the cinematograph screen ahead.
Ten days had passed before the Bugs found their way into the new system and sent clouds of gunboats probing into it while their battlecruisers sat watchfully on the warp point.
Ogleby," returned Carton watchfully, "that it had been taken down by a stenographer at the receiving end of the detectaphone, transcribed in typewriting, and loosely bound in a book of limp black leather.
The two dogcarts that had brought water, food, and lumber had been unloaded and the two-bearhound team of one had been unharnessed and ranged about watchfully.