Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Inattentive; careless.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Inattentive; careless.

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  • adjective Not attentive.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ attentive

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Examples

  • Since their announcement of pricing based on tier & cap make controlversial, they are silently trying out the unattentive subscribes.

    The Case of AT&T’s Incredible Shrinking Broadband Tiers 2009

  • I think it is rediculous to block myspace for the simple reason that you are punishing innocent teens for something some stupid 12 year old niave kid with unattentive parents.

    Challenging Google’s NC Tax Breaks 2007

  • She found you a little fumbling, unattentive, humourless and very fast.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Ms Robinson 2008

  • A musician used to any tune will find that, let it but once begin in his head, the ideas of the several notes of it will follow one another orderly in his understanding, without any care or attention, as regularly as his fingers move orderly over the keys of the organ to play out the tune he has begun, though his unattentive thoughts be elsewhere a wandering.

    An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007

  • This chance to hit unattentive Americans with the hypocrisy of every proposal was missed!

    Think Progress » Webb: If Bush Doesn’t Take The ‘Right Kind Of Action…We Will Be Showing Him The Way’ 2007

  • Now this post makes me feel smart, cause my 1972 Cadillac coupe deville gets about 8 mpg, for one, secondly cause..well, you know those American SUV drivers are all idiots, as you see the university parking lots is plum full of em gas guzzling soccer mom, cell heads, and all around idiotic and unattentive drivers…sheesh.

    Think Progress » NASA scientist James Hansen, 2006

  • I hope the colours of cat heaven are golden brown to let her blend in, that the mice are plump and frisky, the foxes slow and the birds just a little unattentive.

    Pusi Torill 2005

  • I hope the colours of cat heaven are golden brown to let her blend in, that the mice are plump and frisky, the foxes slow and the birds just a little unattentive.

    Archive 2005-10-01 Torill 2005

  • Smyth, pulled the "Distinguished Gentleman" move, and ran where it might have seemed to the unattentive voter that he was the incumbant Taking on Murray Smith's old turf.

    more fun with numbers... daveberta 2005

  • And toothbrushing; she has between 16 and 20 teeth you reach in and count 'em before you call me unattentive, ya? and should we insist on brushing them properly twice a day, or is it enough to see that the brush touches each tooth, and then just let her chew on it for a few minutes?

    Trivia: income, napping and visitors. And motherhood. ailbhe 2005

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