Definitionadj. (often followed by `to') giving care or attention
Last update: July 30, 2015
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The students were quite attentive during the lecture. [adjective]
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Being an attentive listener to such thoughts may be what is required most. [adjective]
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We chatted for some time before ordering sending the attentive waiter away several times. [adjective]
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The females stood modestly aside, and, from having been the principal actors in the scene, they now became the meek and attentive observers of that which followed. [adjective]
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While goaded incessantly by these revengeful impulses that in a savage seldom slumber, the chief was still attentive to his more permanent personal interests. [adjective]
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They advised her to be attentive to the wants of her companion, and never to forget the distinction which the Manitou had so wisely established between them. [adjective]
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Duncan complied; and the Mohican, who had been an attentive listener to the discourse, readily undertook the office. [adjective]
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The Huron, at least, seemed assured that the intentions of this singular intruder were peaceable, for after giving it an attentive examination, he quietly pursued his course. [adjective]
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"Well, boy," demanded the attentive scout; "what does it say." [adjective]
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Recovering his recollection on the instant, instead of sounding an alarm, which might prove fatal to himself, he remained stationary, an attentive observer of the other's motions. [adjective]
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Heyward paused, for he knew not how to construe the remarkable expression that gleamed across the swarthy features of the attentive Indian. [adjective]
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