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Definition of Inattentive

1. Adjective. Showing a lack of attention or care. "An inattentive babysitter"

2. Adjective. Not showing due care or attention. "Neglectful parents"

Definition of Inattentive

1. a. Not attentive; not fixing the mind on an object; heedless; careless; negligent; regardless; as, an inattentive spectator or hearer; an inattentive habit.

Definition of Inattentive

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to lack of attention; not paying attention; careless. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Inattentive

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inattentive

inarticulately inarticulateness inarticulates inarticulation inarticulations inartificial inartistic inartistically inasmuch inasmuch as

inate inattention inattentional blindness inattentions inattentive (current term) inattentively inattentiveness inaudibilities inaudibility inaudible

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Literary usage of Inattentive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Talisman: A Tale of the Crusaders by Walter Scott (1878)
"Hassan, finding his audience inattentive, or being himself attracted by the dubious appearances on the flank, stinted in his song; and the march became ..."

2. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1823)
"There are among them some, which may occasion an inattentive reader to forget that they are all the speeches and the actions of a child! ..."

3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"... so that a vessel coming up the river in the night time would appear to an inattentive or casual observer, standing on the deck of a descending vessel, ..."

4. The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States by United States Dept. of State, Francis Wharton, John Bassett Moore (1889)
"Whether the King of Prussia is wholly inattentive to the present proceedings, and on which side his wishes are. Omnia tentando. ..."

5. The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses by George Washington (1855)
"... should remain under; for, by shifting guards, it is more than probable, that some inattentive person might give him an opportunity of making his escape. ..."

6. The Adventures of Christopher Hawkins by Christopher Hawkins, Charles Ira Bushnell (1864)
"unattended, until beyond the power of medicine; and when, at last, medical assistance was rendered, the physicians were inattentive, to say the least. ..."

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