observant

IPA: ʌbzˈɝvʌnt

Alert and paying close attention; watchful.
Diligently attentive in observing a law, custom, duty or principle; regardful; mindful.

Examples of "observant" in Sentences

The settlers were young couples raised in observant Jewish homes.
I realize I am courting scorn by using the term observant but it works for me.
Thankfully my grandfather is the kind of observant person who notices that sort of thing, had he not, it could have been very bad.
It was well Mr. Carteret was not what his guest called observant, or he might have found a lower pitch in the sound of this sentence than in the sense.
Says Meyer, based on what he's seen from some people already cast for the show: These are not the kind of observant, distant, journalistic types you see on other shows.
- thou shalt not lie with a man as thou would lie with a woman is generally interpreted as "it's ok to be a homosexual, but not to act on your feelings" in observant/orthodox circles
The problem with lyrical realism is that it wants to be "observant" of reality (think of that most sought-after of compliments from a reviewer that the Author is Very Observant) but really what even the best of it achieves is not usually recognizable as "real."
As I say, I have no qualifications to determine whether someone can really be called a Catholic novelist, but speaking as an Orthodox Jew—for whom the word observant means “practicing,” by the way—whether a writer is observant is irrelevant to determining whether he is a Jewish writer.