Inattentive
[ɪnə'tentɪv] or [,ɪnə'tɛntɪv]
Definition
(adj.) showing a lack of attention or care; 'inattentive students'; 'an inattentive babysitter' .
(adj.) not showing due care or attention; 'inattentive students'; 'an inattentive babysitter'; 'neglectful parents' .
Edited by Eileen--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Not attentive; not fixing the mind on an object; heedless; careless; negligent; regardless; as, an inattentive spectator or hearer; an inattentive habit.
Typist: Ludwig
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Unobservant, unobserving, unmindful, inadvertent, heedless, thoughtless, regardless, careless, negligent, remiss, unwatchful, inconsiderate, absent, absent-minded, caught napping.
Inputed by Joanna
Definition
adj. careless not fixing the mind to attention.—ns. Inatten′tion Inattent′iveness.—adv. Inattent′ively.
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Examples
- I had not, Miss Crawford, been an inattentive observer of what was passing between him and some part of this family in the summer and autumn. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Women can't draw--their minds are too flighty, and their eyes are too inattentive. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- His mother, apparently inattentive, at once understood what was meant, and seeing the hold we had upon her, yielded the point to us. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He will be a completely gross, vulgar farmer, totally inattentive to appearances, and thinking of nothing but profit and loss. Jane Austen. Emma.
- We consider you an inattentive reskel,' said the gentleman in the orange plush. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Miss Crawford, untouched and inattentive, had nothing to say; and Fanny, perceiving it, brought back her own mind to what she thought must interest. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I never saw a more promising inclination; he was growing quite inattentive to other people, and wholly engrossed by her. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I am not romantic, Fanny went on to say, while sitting in a musing sort of attitude and seeming quite inattentive to my last wise speech. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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