pay attention
pay attention verb: to attend; to be attentive; to focus one's attention.
Verb
pay attention (third-person singular simple present pays attention, present participle paying attention, simple past and past participle paid attention)
- To attend; to be attentive; to focus one's attention.
- Please pay attention to the danger signs.
- I was on my way to the door, but all at once, through the fog in my head, I began to sight one reef that I hadn't paid any attention to afore.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter IV, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
pay attention meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada
pay attention in Hindi
- to be attentive
- ध्यान देना dhyān denā
pay attention in Tamil
- to be attentive
- கவனி kavaṉi
pay attention in Malayalam
- pay attention
- ശ്രദ്ധിക്കുക śraddhikkuka
pay attention in Kannada
- ಕಿವಿಗೊಡು, ಕಿವಿಯೀ
More languagesFewer languages
- pay attention in Arabic
- أَعَارَ اِنْتِبَاه ʔaʕāra intibāh
- pay attention in Thai
- ระวัง rá-wang
- pay attention in Vietnamese
- chú ý
Synonyms of pay attention
- give heed
- pay heed
- mind
- pick up what someone is putting down
- take heed
- tend
- clock
- consider
- heed
- let in on
Antonyms
- ignore
- fail to notice
Forms of pay attention
| third-person singular present | pays attention |
|---|---|
| present participle | paying attention |
| past participle | paid attention |
| past | paid attention |
Questions about pay attention
- What does pay attention mean?
- Pay attention means to attend; to be attentive; to focus one's attention.
- What is pay attention in Hindi?
- Pay attention in Hindi is ध्यान देना (dhyān denā). See Pay attention meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is pay attention?
- Pay attention is a verb.
- What is the past tense of pay attention?
- The past tense of pay attention is paid attention.
Words near pay attention in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: pay attention (page history and authors); ശ്രദ്ധിക്കുക (Malayalam) (page history and authors); pay attention (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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