attentive

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈtɛntɪv/

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Adjective

attentive (comparative more attentive, superlative most attentive)

1. 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.

2. Courteous; mindful.

   a husband attentive to his wife's needs

Synonyms

• audient
• heedful
• mindful
• reckful

Antonyms

• inattentive, reckless

Derived terms

• attentively
• attentiveness
• attentivity
• hyperattentive
• nonattentive
• overattentive
• polyattentive
• preattentive
• unattentive

 

Translations

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)

mindful

• Finnish: huomaavainen (fi)

See also

• alert
• wary
• watchful

Anagrams

• tentative

French

Pronunciation

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Adjective

attentive

1. feminine singular of attentif