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Heedful; intent; observant; regarding with care or attention.

Not attentive; not fixing the mind on an object; heedless; careless; negligent; regardless; as, an inattentive spectator or hearer; an inattentive habit. I. Watts.

Inattentive; careless.

Inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied; as, an absent air. What is commonly called an absent man is commonly either a very weak or a very affected man. Chesterfield.

Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind. "An abstracted scholar." Johnson.

Attentive; heedful; regardful. Sir M. Hale. -- Ad*vert"ent*ly, adv.

Attentive, as a person listening. [Obs.] God speaks not the idle and unconcerned hearer, but to the vigilant and arrect. Smalridge.

Constant in application or attention; devoted; attentive; unremitting. She grows more assiduous in her attendance. Addison.

Attentive; heedful. [Archaic] Let thine ears be attent unto the prayer. 2 Chron. vi. 40.

s paid to a stranger. To pay attention to, To pay one's attentions to, to be courteous or attentive to; to wait upon as a lover; to court.

Attentively. [Obs.] Barrow.

Having no care; not taking ordinary or proper care; negligent; unconcerned; heedless; inattentive; unmindful; regardless. My brother was too careless of his charge. Shak. He grew careless of himself. Steele.

Attentive to examine probable effects and consequences of acts with a view to avoid danger or misfortune; prudent; circumspect; wary; watchful; as, a cautious general. Cautious feeling for another's pain. Byron. Be swift to hear; but cautious of your tongue. Watts.

Attentive to all the circustances of a case or the probable consequences of an action; cautious; prudent; wary.

Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict; not wandering; as, a close observer.

abitually so meet. He [Bunyan] rode every year to London, and preached there to large and attentive congregations. Macaulay.

Forbearing to see; designedly inattentive; as, connivent justice. [R.] Milton.

To look at attentively; to observe; to examine. She considereth a field, and buyeth it. Prov. xxxi. 16.

Attentive respect; appreciative regard; -- used especially in diplomatic or stately correspondence. The undersigned has the honor to repeat to Mr. Hulseman the assurance of his high consideration. D. Webster. The consideration with which he was treated. Whewell.

Attentive care; homage; worship. Every one is convinced of the reality of a better self, and of. thecult or homage which is due to it. Shaftesbury.