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[ adverb ] in an attentive manner

Synonyms

with_attention paying_attention

Examples

"he listened attentively"

Used in print

(Robert L. Duncan, The Voice of Strangers....)

He left with all the joyous spirit of a child going on a holiday , nodding attentively as Rector gave him his final instructions .

Related terms

attentive attentive

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Rhymes with

deceptively extensively retrospectively defensively comprehensively effectively collectively respectively objectively inexpensively protectively expensively intensively selectively offensively tentatively furtively assertively administratively creatively qualitatively authoritatively alternatively imaginatively instinctively legislatively appreciatively distinctively effectively seductively productively constructively plaintively attractively exhaustively retroactively consecutively intuitively comparatively competitively positively appreciatively figuratively sensitively relatively provocatively negatively tentatively cumulatively prohibitively cooperatively conservatively progressively impressively successively aggressively excessively obsessively actively derisively persuasively compulsively impulsively derisively quantitatively passively massively naively plaintively conclusively impassively explosively effusively exclusively decisively inconclusively bravely gravely lovely lively

Phonetic and Homophones

AH0 T EH1 N T IH0 V L IY0

Similar Spelling

attentive attentiveness attentional attenuate attention attendant attendance attendee attending attend_to

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