advertent

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
15
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ədˈvɜːtn̩t/
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/ədˈvɜːtn̩t/ · /ədˈvɝtn̩t/

Definition of advertent

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Attentive.
    “Is he rich, prosperous, great? yet he continues safe, because he continues humble, watchful, advertent, lest he should be deceived and transported”
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adj

  1. Attentive.
    “Is he rich, prosperous, great? yet he continues safe, because he continues humble, watchful, advertent, lest he should be deceived and transported”
  2. Not inadvertent; intentional.
    “There is such thing as advertent negligence in which the harm is foreseen as possible or probable.”
    “Until the 1950s, for judges both the conceptual and terminological identification of advertent risk taking — subjective recklessness — often lay submerged within the amorphous notion of 'malice' [....]”

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Etymology

Apparently a back-formation from inadvertent, or a learned borrowing from Latin advertent-, advertens, present participle of advertere, from the verb adverto (“to give or draw attention to”)

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