observant

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  1. adjective Quick to perceive or apprehend; alert: an observant traveler. See Synonyms at careful.
  2. adjective Diligent in observing a law, custom, duty, or principle: observant of the speed limit.

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  • It's extremely difficult for me to do, because my family is completely non-observant, and furthermore, is very skeptical of services in particular. —  The IgNoble Experiment, a.k.a. Live Dangerously!
  • Bashing the observant is typical leftist politics and their friends in the IMPJ will carry the water. —  Israelated - English Israel blogs
  • Russell Peters is a very funny, observant, and insightful comic, but his comedy leans more toward the race-related and the sexual than the more family-friendly humor of —  StuffWeLike.com
  • And I was being specifically observant, and am an experienced driver.
  • Even though we were not active in the shul or observant, the Rabbi and the congregation immediately embraced us with warmth. —  Israelated - English Israel blogs
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  1. = Old French observant = Spanish Portuguese observante = Italian osservante, from Latin observan(t-)s, present participle of observare, watch, note, observe: see observe.
 

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