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attentive
carefully listening or watching
Synonyms
- alert
- observant
- watchful
Antonyms
- careless
- distracted
attentive in a sentence
The attentive students noticed each step in the teacher's experiment.
The attentive lifeguard watched every swimmer in the shallow pool.
Where it comes from
From Latin attendere 'to stretch toward'
Memory hook
Attentive begins like attention, which you give by watching and listening.
Read it in context
- The Garden Below Nature