attentive

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Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
14
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/əˈtɛntɪv/

Definition of attentive

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.
    “She is an attentive listener, but does not like to talk much.”
    “King-of-the-Sky was sitting alone in the Leeward Village meeting-house, gesticulating to the attentive shades of night, roaring out the genealogy of his ancestors, telling the sleeping world of his greatness.”
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adj

  1. Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.
    “She is an attentive listener, but does not like to talk much.”
    “King-of-the-Sky was sitting alone in the Leeward Village meeting-house, gesticulating to the attentive shades of night, roaring out the genealogy of his ancestors, telling the sleeping world of his greatness.”
  2. Courteous; mindful.
    “a husband attentive to his wife’s needs”

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Etymology

From Middle English attentif, attentijf, from Old French attentif.

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