Synonym: distracted, heedless, negligent, unmindful, wandering. Similar words: attentive, attention, pay attention to, incentive, tentative, preventive, tentatively, attend. Meaning: [‚ɪnə'tentɪv] adj. 1. showing a lack of attention or care 2. not showing due care or attention.
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31 Failing to give due heed , care, or attention ; inattentive.
32 But inattentive drivers — some of them talking on cell phones or simply not noticing a long line of cars traveling together — are a major factor in what seems like a rise in processional incivility.
33 He was growing quite inattentive to other people and wholly engrossed by her.
34 Ah, no, no. There is messiness, because I have been inattentive.
35 How do I know when the listeners are bored and inattentive?
36 It keeps returning , and takes hold of us easily when we are inattentive or distracted.
37 Thoug he seemed to listen carefully, he was inattentive and misapprehensive.
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