All on the qui vive synonyms
qui vive
O o adjective on the qui vive
- concentrating — Present participle of concentrate.
- enrapt — Fascinated; enthralled.
- insomnious — (archaic) restless; sleepless.
- glued — Simple past tense and past participle of glue.
- jazzed — music originating in New Orleans around the beginning of the 20th century and subsequently developing through various increasingly complex styles, generally marked by intricate, propulsive rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, improvisatory, virtuosic solos, melodic freedom, and a harmonic idiom ranging from simple diatonicism through chromaticism to atonality.
- discomposed — Simple past tense and past participle of discompose.
- disquieted — lack of calm, peace, or ease; anxiety; uneasiness.
- wary — watchful; being on one's guard against danger.
- wakeful — unable to sleep; not sleeping; indisposed to sleep: Excitement made the children wakeful.
- alert — If you are alert, you are paying full attention to things around you and are able to deal with anything that might happen.
adj on the qui vive
- all ears — If someone says that they are all ears, they mean that they are ready and eager to listen.
- attentive — If you are attentive, you are paying close attention to what is being said or done.
- anguished — Anguished means showing or feeling great mental suffering or physical pain.
- insomniac — a person who suffers from insomnia, the inability, especially when chronic, to obtain sufficient sleep, through difficulty in falling or staying asleep: Her husband, an insomniac, had at last fallen asleep at the computer, head resting on the keyboard.