1 listening or watching carefully and with interest:
an attentive audience
2 ~ (to sb/sth) helpful; making sure that people have what they need:
The hotel staff are friendly and attentive. * Ministers should be more attentive to the needs of families.
attentively adverb:
The children listened attentively to the story.
attentiveness noun [U]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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Is attentive a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, attentive is tagged as adjective.
Does attentive appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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