vigilantly

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English vigilant

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English vigilantly

From vigilant + -ly.

Adverb

vigilantly (comparative more vigilantly, superlative most vigilantly)

1. In a vigilant manner.
   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 204:

     He shuffled athwart, keeping one eye ahead vigilantly.

Derived terms

• hypervigilantly

Translations

in a vigilant manner

• Catalan: vigilantment
• French: vigilamment (fr)
• Greek: άγρυπνα (el) (ágrypna)
• Portuguese: vigilantemente
• Spanish: vigilantemente (es)