Etymology
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From Middle English attentif, attentijf, from Old French attentif.
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Adjective
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attentive (comparative more attentive, superlative most attentive)
- Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.
She is an attentive listener, but does not like to talk much.
1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, republished by Eland, 2019; p. 94: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.
- Courteous; mindful.
a husband attentive to his wife's needs
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paying attention
- Arabic: مُنْتَبِه (muntabih)
- Belarusian: ува́жлівы (uvážlivy)
- Bulgarian: внима́телен (bg) (vnimátelen)
- Catalan: atent (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 注意的 (zh) (zhùyì de), 細心的／细心的 (zh) (xìxīn de)
- Czech: pozorný (cs)
- Danish: opmærksom (da)
- Dutch: aandachtig (nl)
- Esperanto: atenta
- Finnish: tarkkaavainen (fi), valpas (fi)
- French: attentif (fr)
- German: aufmerksam (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: ἐπιμελής (epimelḗs)
- Hungarian: figyelmes (hu)
- Ido: detalema
- Ingrian: vilkas
- Irish: aireach
- Italian: attento (it)
- Japanese: 注意深い (ja) (ちゅういぶかい, chūibukai)
- Korean: 조심의 (ko) (josimui), 세심하다 (sesimhada)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: وریا (wirya)
- Latin: attentus, intentus
- Latvian: uzmanīgs, rūpīgs
- Macedonian: внимателен (vnimatelen)
- Maori: puakaha, rahirahi, pīkari
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: oppmerksom (no)
- Nynorsk: oppmerksam
- Polish: baczny (pl), uważny (pl)
- Portuguese: atencioso (pt), atento (pt)
- Romanian: atent (ro)
- Russian: внима́тельный (ru) (vnimátelʹnyj)
- Sanskrit: प्रबुध् (sa) (prabudh)
- Scottish Gaelic: cùramach
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: па̀жљив
- Roman: pàžljiv (sh)
- Slovak: pozorný
- Slovene: pozoren (sl)
- Spanish: atento (es), solícito (es)
- Swedish: uppmärksam (sv)
- Ukrainian: ува́жний (uk) (uvážnyj), ува́жливий (uk) (uvážlyvyj)
- Welsh: astud (cy), sylwgar (cy)
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