Word.ws English Dictionary

polyattentive

polyattentive adjective: able to pay attention to several things at once.

Adjective

polyattentive (not comparable)

  1. Able to pay attention to several things at once.

Origin of polyattentive

From poly- + attentive.

Questions about polyattentive

What does polyattentive mean?
Polyattentive means able to pay attention to several things at once.
What part of speech is polyattentive?
Polyattentive is an adjective.

Words near polyattentive in the dictionary

  1. polyaspidids
  2. polyatheist
  3. polyatheists
  4. polyatomic
  5. polyatomicity
  6. polyattentive
  7. polyattentiveness
  8. polyautographic
  9. polyautography
  10. polyautoimmunity
  11. polyaxial

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: polyattentive (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “polyattentive.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/polyattentive. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.