Attentive vs Carefully - What's the difference?
attentive | carefully |
paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely
(lb) Sorrowfully.
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*:there was she faine / To call them all in order to her ayde, / And them conjure, upon eternall paine, / To counsell her, so carefully dismayd, / How she might heale her sonne.
With care; attentively, circumspectly.
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*:Then his sallow face brightened, for the hall had been carefully furnished, and was very clean. ΒΆ There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
As an adjective attentive
is paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.As an adverb carefully is
(lb) sorrowfully.attentive
English
Etymology
.Adjective
(en adjective)- She is an attentive listener, but does not like to talk much.
