inattentive
[in-uh-ten-tiv]
adjective
not attentive; negligent.
Origin of inattentive
Synonyms for inattentive
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Related Words for inattentive
bored, distracted, careless, distraught, oblivious, indifferent, apathetic, absent, absentminded, blind, diverted, dreamy, faraway, heedless, inadvertent, listless, lost, musing, neglectful, off-guardExamples from the Web for inattentive
Contemporary Examples of inattentive
She never liked her mother—a frigid and inattentive woman—but adored her father.
The Row is understated, luxurious, and inattentive to trends.
Plotz was, by his own estimation, an inattentive Jew, a biblical ignoramus.
Historical Examples of inattentive
You shall not complain of an inattentive or an irritable auditor.
Vivian GreyEarl of Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli
He stopped suddenly, for he had glanced at M. Chevrial and found him inattentive.
The DestroyerBurton Egbert Stevenson
He was inattentive, and I perceived that he was profoundly perturbed.
ChanceJoseph Conrad
But when prayer is inattentive the mind does not ascend towards God.
On Prayer and The Contemplative LifeSt. Thomas Aquinas
He paused a moment, looking at the inattentive youth opposite him.
Gilian The DreamerNeil Munro
inattentive
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