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attentive English

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Definitions in simple English

attentive

If a person or animal is attentive, it is trying hard to notice things. An attentive audience, both young and old, was listening for any change. Our server was attentive but not very knowledgeable about the food. He was especially attentive toward his wife, and didn't want to leave her side for long.

attentive

(often followed by 'to') giving care or attention attentive to details the nurse was attentive to her patient an attentive suitor (= heedful, thoughtful) taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention heedful of the warnings so heedful a writer heedful of what they were doing

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Topics attentive topics

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Simple sentences

Tom looked like he was attentive.
He asks me to be attentive.
You need to be more attentive in class.
Be attentive.
You're attentive.
Tom is attentive.
I'm attentive.
As the days passed into weeks, even the teacher praised him, for he saw him attentive, hard working, and wide awake, always the first to come in the morning, and the last to leave when school was over.
Tom was attentive.
Conversation between two people presupposes four attentive ears.
You're very attentive.
They were most attentive to his speech.
He says that I'm attentive.

Movie subtitles

Attentive, but clumsy.
Oh, no, you've been too attentive.
Jonathan, I must ask thee to be more attentive.
Let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplication. because with the Lord there is mercy.
He looks very charming and very attentive.
He seemed attentive.
The doctor very attentive.
Perhaps he's been too attentive, too familiar. but suppose I don't care?
He's so attentive.
Be attentive, in 15 minutes we'll meet again here.
Go back to your cell and in the future, try to be more attentive.
Neither had ever had such an attentive listener.
Lady Beltham will be an attentive host to you.
He always so attentive.
Well didn't that little man try to be attentive to you?
Try to be less touched and more attentive.
Mrs. Pogge is being very attentive to that young man, don't you find?
They chatted easily. Neither had ever had such an attentive listener.
How attentive.
I've been an attentive listener to the vicar's outpourings.
We are very attentive and exceptionally discrete.
You just have to be attentive to the cards.
Not the Professor, he has an adoring wife and an attentive doctor.
HOW ATTENTIVE CAPTAIN BROWN IS.
Be attentive to Mme. Walter. It will help you to get on.
He is young, but very attentive.
Mrs. Maria Fromet, attentive and at her place and who acts so well, thanks.
Attentive as always.
I try to be attentive.
A tree to which she had been passionately attentive, except when it came to injustice.
We must be especially attentive here.
They were attentive, laughing at what I was saying.
I was very attentive.

News and current affairs

Insurers must also be attentive to a wide array of possible moral hazards - perverse incentives to risky behavior - and to problems of selection bias in attracting clients.
Big drops get their attention, and this primes some people to be attentive for them in the future, and to be ready to sell if another one comes.
An attentive national government would surely have realized that the Gulf region of the United States is more vulnerable to high-energy hurricanes.
Though Netanyahu's shrill words still have an attentive audience in the US, most of Europe regards his position as being only a little short of ridiculous.
Specifically, children are more attentive to classroom tasks after recess than before recess.
When children come back from these breaks, they seem more attentive and ready to work than before.
In all the experiments, the children were more attentive after the recess than before, and they were less attentive when the break came later.
Furthermore, in many cases, gender moderated the effects of recess. First, in reading assignments, the children were more attentive to same-gender, relative to other-gender, books.
The results from this experiment replicated the findings from the outdoor recess results: the children were more attentive after recess than before.
So, whoever aspires to help the parties reach a settlement needs to be attentive to the fact that territorial borders are only one aspect of this conflict - and not necessarily the most contentious one.
If abuses and repression in the provinces continue no matter how attentive the central government, or how assertive the press might have become, what then?

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