Definitions for: Attentive


[adj] (often followed by `to') giving care or attention; "attentive to details"; "the nurse was attentive to her patient"; "an attentive suitor"
[adj] taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention; "heedful of the warnings"; "so heedful a writer"; "heedful of what they were doing"



Webster (1913) Definition: At*ten"tive ([a^]t*t[e^]n"t[i^]v), a. [Cf. F.
attentif.]
1. Heedful; intent; observant; regarding with care or
attention.

Note: Attentive is applied to the senses of hearing and
seeing, as, an attentive ear or eye; to the application
of the mind, as in contemplation; or to the application
of the mind, in every possible sense, as when a person
is attentive to the words, and to the manner and
matter, of a speaker at the same time.

2. Heedful of the comfort of others; courteous.

Syn: Heedful; intent; observant; mindful; regardful;
circumspect; watchful. -- At*ten"tive*ly, adv. --
At*ten"tive*ness, n.

Synonyms: absorbed, advertent, engrossed, enwrapped, heedful, intent, listening, observant, oversolicitous, rapt, solicitous, thoughtful, wrapped

Antonyms: heedless, inattentive, thoughtless, unheeding

See Also: concerned

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