attentive

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Assuming the anecdote is accurate, my guess is this was Steve's subtle way of nudging Vic to be more attentive to details.

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Quick take

(often followed by `to') giving care or attention; "attentive to details"; "the nurse was attentive to her patient"; "an attentive suitor"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of attentive gathered in one view.

adjective

(often followed by `to') giving care or attention; "attentive to details"; "the nurse was attentive to her patient"; "an attentive suitor"

adjective

taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention; "heedful of the warnings"; "so heedful a writer"; "heedful of what they were doing"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for attentive.

adjective

(often followed by `to') giving care or attention; "attentive to details"; "the nurse was attentive to her patient"; "an attentive suitor"

adjective

taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention; "heedful of the warnings"; "so heedful a writer"; "heedful of what they were doing"

Example sentences

Assuming the anecdote is accurate, my guess is this was Steve's subtle way of nudging Vic to be more attentive to details.

This would likely come at the cost of literal inability to be attentive to motifs that haven't been stored.

If you are a non-attentive, dis-interested pet owner you probably don't care enough to buy this.

If you had called the office supply chain where I previously worked and I was being very strictly attentive to policy "Is that your best price?

I would have described myself as an attentive boyfriend, and didn't understand at all why a girlfriend might disagree with that assessment.

But if we are generous listeners and attentive teachers, we not only teach better and spread more knowledge, but also learn more, and enjoy ourselves more in the process.

While I don't begrudge you that, part of me hopes you might cast a rather attentive, and sustained, eye upon the current state of O'Reilly's publishing activities and titles.

If your UI requires that users "be attentive" just to discover the content you're trying to convey, then your UI is awful and the user's failure to see it is entirely your fault.

They would have asked better questions about the due diligence and been more attentive to valuing the buyer -- valuation is what VC firms do -- and might have spotted the problems themselves.

One should be very attentive to the default settings at one's major advertising network of choice, because the default settings almost always group the prime rib cut of the attention market with the pink slime and sell it at prime rib prices.

It's easy for any reasonably attentive person to guess my ethnic background; my last name is very identifiable - sort of the Indian equivalent of something like 'Schwartzbaumstein'.

It's rare and catches people of guard when a stranger strikes up a conversation and positioning yourself as friendly and attentive about listening and putting the emphasis on the stranger and not yourself can really open a lot of doors.

You don't even have to be particularly attentive to your clients businesses, because so many people have built and written up methodologies for using code to make money for businesses; you can literally start by reading up on those, and offering them to clients who don't already do them.