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UK
/ɐtˈɛntɪv/
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[ US /əˈtɛntɪv/ ]
[ US /əˈtɛntɪv/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention
so heedful a writer
heedful of the warnings
heedful of what they were doing -
(often followed by `to') giving care or attention
an attentive suitor
the nurse was attentive to her patient
attentive to details
How To Use attentive In A Sentence
- Less shouting makes for a more attentive audience. Times, Sunday Times
- So how, precisely, do I find myself the father of a teenage owner of one 5-year-old, skewbald, equine quadruped, about 13 hands tall, who answers, rather inattentively, to the name Buttons? Finding the Next Winner
- Not to be outdone, many historians came to consider scholars trained in economics to be overly narrow, inattentive to historical context, and interpretively reductionistic.
- If inattention is the cause for confusion then that's on the inattentive. A Disclaimer for Behe?
- So how, precisely, do I find myself the father of a teenage owner of one five-year-old, skewbald, equine quadruped, about 13 hands tall, who answers, rather inattentively, to the name Buttons? History, Horses and the Luck of the Irish
- He has endeavoured to render THE PICTURE an intelligent _Cicerone_, without being too garrulous or grandiloquous, -- but always attentive to the stranger, leading him to every remarkable object, and giving just as much description of each, as would be acceptable to persons enjoying the full use of their eyes. Brannon's Picture of The Isle of Wight The Expeditious Traveller's Index to Its Prominent Beauties & Objects of Interest. Compiled Especially with Reference to Those Numerous Visitors Who Can Spare but Two or Three Days to Make the Tour of the
- 'Come, come, Sikes,' said the Jew appealing to him in a remonstratory tone, and motioning towards the boys, who were eagerly attentive to all that passed; 'we must have civil words; civil words, Bill.' Oliver Twist
- He was always attentive to the need to maintain the highest standards, generous with his time and unfailingly courteous. Times, Sunday Times
- To be a muddle-headed aesthete, even to be interested in the aesthetic qualities of literature at all, has long been anathema to a certain kind of critic, grounds for accusing writers of being morally deficient, but why, for example, would it probably not occur to these critics to declare, say, composers too interested in art, too attentive to the needs of form over those of morality? Narrative Strategies
- He again applied his eye to the glass, and turning his ear to the partition, listened attentively: with a subtle and eager look upon his face, that might have appertained to some old goblin. Oliver Twist