Definition of Observant

Observant

Taking notice; viewing or noticing attentively; watchful; attentive; as, an observant spectator; observant habits.

Submissively attentive; obediently watchful; regardful; mindful; obedient (to); -- with of, as, to be observant of rules.

One who observes forms and rules.

A sycophantic servant.

An Observantine.

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Observant Quotations

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.
Virginia Woolf

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
Beverly Cleary

I'll see a photograph of a character and try to copy them on to my face. I think I'm really observant, and thinking how a person is put together, seeing them on the street and noticing subtle things about them that make them who they are.
Cindy Sherman

Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age.
Joel Coen

I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.
Dick Schaap

The observant Jew has his own sense of values. Torah Judaism is his blueprint for this life, his target for existence.
Meir Kahane

It's a director's job to tell a story and he's very well versed in telling stories with a bit of comedy in them and keeping the pace of the movie right and that's exactly what he did. He was observant of a world he didn't understand but he told a wonderful story.
Cuba Gooding, Jr.

Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.
Alma Guillermoprieto

I love movin'. I was observant growing up, watching Michael Jackson and John Travolta. I'd close my eyes, see the moves.
Jon Heder

The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
V. S. Pritchett

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Observant Translations

observant in French is observateur
observant in German is abwartend, achtsam

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