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unattentive

unattentive adjective: not attentive.

Adjective

unattentive (comparative more unattentive, superlative most unattentive)

  1. Not attentive.

Forms of unattentive

comparativemore unattentive
superlativemost unattentive

Origin of unattentive

From un- + attentive.

Words formed from unattentive

Questions about unattentive

What does unattentive mean?
Unattentive means not attentive.
What part of speech is unattentive?
Unattentive is an adjective.

Words near unattentive in the dictionary

  1. unattended installation
  2. unattended installations
  3. unattendedly
  4. unattending
  5. unattention
  6. unattentive
  7. unattentively
  8. unattentiveness
  9. unattenuated
  10. unattestability
  11. unattestable

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