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reattentive

reattentive adjective: paying attention again.

Adjective

reattentive (comparative more reattentive, superlative most reattentive)

  1. Paying attention again.
    • The podcast title was shared with her 2020 book of Times nature columns, which reflects that, despite everything, the noticing of nature in lockdown could be the 'start of something wonderful', people reattentive to the non-human world, in wonder and responsibility.2023, David Matless, About England, page 92

Forms of reattentive

comparativemore reattentive
superlativemost reattentive

Origin of reattentive

re- + attentive

Questions about reattentive

What does reattentive mean?
Reattentive means paying attention again.
What part of speech is reattentive?
Reattentive is an adjective.

Words near reattentive in the dictionary

  1. reattended
  2. reattender
  3. reattenders
  4. reattending
  5. reattends
  6. reattentive
  7. reattenuate
  8. reattenuated
  9. reattenuates
  10. reattenuating
  11. reattenuation

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