Attentive vs Unintermitted - What's the difference?
attentive | unintermitted | Related terms |
paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely
(dated) Not intermitted; uninterrupted, ceaseless.
*1888 , , The Reverberator .
*:The only action taken by Mr. Dosson in consequence of his elder daughter's revelations was to embrace the idea as a subject of daily pleasantry. He was fond, in his intercourse with his children, of some small usual joke, some humorous refrain; and what could have been more in the line of true domestic sport than a little gentle but unintermitted raillery upon Francie's conquest?
As adjectives the difference between attentive and unintermitted
is that attentive is paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely while unintermitted is not intermitted; uninterrupted, ceaseless.attentive
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Etymology
.Adjective
(en adjective)- She is an attentive listener, but does not like to talk much.