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attentive
[ uh-ten-tiv ]
adjective
- characterized by or giving attention; observant:
an attentive audience.
Synonyms: watchful, awake, alert, aware, mindful, heedful
Antonyms: unconcerned, apathetic, indifferent
- thoughtful of others; considerate; polite; courteous:
an attentive host.
attentive
/ əˈtɛntɪv /
adjective
- paying attention; listening carefully; observant
- postpositiveoften foll byto careful to fulfil the needs or wants (of); considerate (about)
she was always attentive to his needs
Derived Forms
- atˈtentively, adverb
- atˈtentiveness, noun
Other Words From
- at·ten·tive·ly adverb
- at·ten·tive·ness noun
- o·ver·at·ten·tive adjective
- o·ver·at·ten·tive·ly adverb
- un·at·ten·tive adjective
- un·at·ten·tive·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of attentive1
Example Sentences
Interviews with the teachers following the intervention also suggested that children were more calm, relaxed and attentive in class after time spent in nature.
The senators were respectful and attentive.
Trump himself was quite attentive to “your Bitcoin, your crypto, and everything else that you’re playing with” this election cycle: speaking at the Bitcoin 2024 conference, launching his own NFT “trading cards,” and even helming his own flopping crypto trading business, World Liberty Financial.
However, I use bootstrapping in a sense that remains attentive to the actual claims expressed by Black American liberals such as Douglass, Easton and Stewart, who saw internal racial uplift as a central tenet for transforming their societies even as they levied devastating critiques of antebellum America’s inegalitarian social and political system that make such personal uplift all but impossible.
Speaking to the media, he described her as an attentive student who had learnt advanced mathematics herself.
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