attentiveadjective
uk/əˈten.tɪv/us/əˈten.t̬ɪv/attentive adjective (LISTENING)
listening carefully:
an attentive audience
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Cautious and vigilant
- askance
- belt and braces idiom
- better safe than sorry idiom
- better the devil you know (than the devil you don't) idiom
- careful
- due diligence
- gingerly
- guarded
- intent
- jealous
- narrowly
- once
- once bitten, twice shy idiom
- precise
- prudent
- sedulous
- slowly
- vigilance
- vigilant
- wary
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attentive adjective (HELPING)
If someone is attentive, they are very helpful and take care of you:
He was very attentive to her when she was ill.
A good teacher is always attentive to their students' needs.
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Kind & thoughtful
- accommodating
- avuncular
- be all heart idiom
- be big of sb idiom
- beautiful
- benign
- consideration
- fatherly
- good-hearted
- good-natured
- goodwill
- gracious
- have a heart of gold idiom
- neighbourly
- nice
- nicely
- obliging
- open-hearted
- supportive
- well meant
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attentively
adverb uk/əˈten.tɪv.li/us/əˈten.t̬ɪv.li/
The children sat listening attentively to the story.
attentiveness
noun [ U ] uk/əˈten.tɪv.nəs/us/əˈten.t̬ɪv.nəs/