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Not officious; not civil or attentive. [Obs.] Jonhson.

Attentive. [Obs.]

Closely directed; strictly attentive; bent; -- said of the mind, thoughts, etc.; as, a mind intent on self-improvement.

Attentive; intent. [Obs.] Spenser.

Attentively; closely. [Obs.] "Intentively to observe." Holland.

Closeness of attention or application of mind; attentiveness. [Obs.] W. Montagu.

Attentive [Obs.] Spenser.

Bearing in mind; regardful; attentive; heedful; observant. What is man, that thou art mindful of him Ps. viii. 4. I promise you to be mindful of your admonitions. Hammond. -- Mind"ful*ly, adv. -- Mind"ful*ness, n.

Unmindful; inattentive; heedless; careless. Cursed Athens, mindless of thy worth. Shak.

Attentive to small things; paying attention to details; critical; particular; precise; as, a minute observer; minute observation.

Full of neglect; heedless; careless; negligent; inattentive; indifferent. Pope. A cold and neglectful countenance. Locke. Though the Romans had no great genius for trade, yet they were not entirely neglectful of it. Arbuthnot. -- Neg*lect"ful*ly, adv. -- Neg*lect"ful*ness, n.

Very busy; attentive to business; active. [R.] D. Rogers.

Servilely or meanly attentive; compliant to excess; cringing; fawning; as, obsequious flatterer, parasite. There lies ever in "obsequious" at the present the sense of an observance which is overdone, of an unmanly readiness to fall in with the will of another. Trench.

Taking notice; viewing or noticing attentively; watchful; attentive; as, an observant spectator; observant habits. Wandering from clime to clime observant stray'd. Pope.

Giving particular attention; habitually attentive to what passes; as, an observing person; an observing mind. -- Ob*serv"ing*ly, adv.

Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from his post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent; as, he took an off day for fishing: an off year in politics. "In the off season." Thackeray. Off side. (a) The right hand side in driving; the farther side. See Gee.…

Careless; negligent; inattentive; superfical; not thorough. [Archaic] Bp. Hall.

Careful in doing; diligent; faithful; attentive. "Painstaking men." Harris.

Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise; as, a full and particular account of an accident; hence, nice; fastidious; as, a man particular in his dress.

To attend; to be attentive. [R.] Shak.