attentive
adjective
characterized by or giving attention; observant.
unattentive
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a word derived from
attentive.
Example Sentences
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Young men, who are too unattentive to receive lectures, are irresistibly taken with performances.
From The Tatler, Volume 3 by Various
A short speech; and an unattentive, and disheartened audience!
From The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola by Thomas Gordon
When being at St. James's Garlick-Hill Church, I heard the Service read so distinctly, so emphatically, and so fervently, that it was next to an Impossibility to be unattentive.
From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Joseph Addison
At length the blind man replied, as out of a negligent, unattentive thinking: 'Oh, I don't know.
From England, My England by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
She saw him stooping to the bag, undoing the loosely buckled strap, unattentive.
From Women in Love by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
