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
NOUN
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paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people)
he spends without heed to the consequences
his attentiveness to her wishes
How To Use paying attention In A Sentence
- The teacher gently reproved the boys for not paying attention.
- Unless a member of the Vanguard or the Scarlet Scholars (both groups paying attention to what most consider obscure and nigh-useless knowledge), even most paranormal agents active today have only heard of the Bleak Baron Frederick or his granduncle Wolfgang and their works on fighting monsters. The Codex Continual » The Von Baurs
- Tyler turned his beautiful face to look over at Jane, who was not paying attention and turning the TV on, cuddling up with a pillow.
- They sat in a circle, their sketch books on their laps or bended knees, though none of them seemed to be paying attention to their work.
- Social responsibility accounting requires enterprises paying attention to social benefits while pursuing economic benefits.
- This is a president who's the biggest spendthrift that I've seen since I've been paying attention in politics.
- Asked if he was paying attention to extraneous noises, he said: ‘No.’
- If you aren't paying attention, you might even buy into what that slippery little scut is saying…
- It is not hopeless, it is not undoable, we have only to marshal the will to start paying attention.
- I guess they are actually paying attention to what this dimwit is saying and doing instead of blindly adoring her as the future standard bearer of the party. Poll: Majority of Republicans don't think Palin's qualified for prez
