Alert
Alert adjective - Paying close attention usually for the purpose of anticipating approaching danger or opportunity.
Questioning and alert are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Questioning" instead an adjective "Alert".
Questioning
Questioning adjective - Inclined to doubt or question claims.
Alert and questioning are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Alert" instead an adjective "Questioning".
Both words in one sentence
-
Informed Ability: Rise of Endymion is full of references to the independent nature, critical thinking tendencies and, at one point, a vast mob of "intelligent, questioning, alert" Aenea's followers.
Source: Literature / Hyperion Cantos - Command & Conquer: Red Alert, in the twelveth Soviet mission, Stalin says the exact same line in response to Nadia and Georgi Kukov questioning his desire to obtain the Allies' Chronosphere.
Source: Surrounded by Idiots
Cite this Source
Questioning and Alert. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/alert/questioning
Alert & Questioning. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/alert/questioning>.
Questioning or Alert. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/alert/questioning.
Google Ngram Viewer shows how "alert" and "questioning" have occurred on timeline