attentively

English

Etymology

From Middle English attentifly, attentifli, equivalent to attentive +‎ -ly.

Adverb

attentively (comparative more attentively, superlative most attentively)

1. In an attentive manner.
   • 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:

     'It's a very clean cut,' said the Rat, examining it again attentively.

   • 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:

     When Major saw that they had all made themselves comfortable and were waiting attentively, he cleared his throat and began

Derived terms

• preattentively

 

Translations

in an attentive manner

• Catalan: atentament (ca)
• Dutch: oplettend (nl)
• Esperanto: atenteme
• Finnish: tarkkaavaisesti (fi), huomaavaisesti (fi)
• French: attentivement (fr)
• German: aufmerksam (de)
• Hungarian: figyelmesen (hu), figyelemmel
• Ido: atencoze (io)
• Italian: attentamente (it)
• Polish: uważnie (pl), bacznie (pl)
• Portuguese: atentamente (pt), atenciosamente (pt)
• Romanian: atent (ro)
• Russian: внима́тельно (ru) (vnimátelʹno)
• Spanish: atentamente (es)
• Tocharian B: anaiśai
• Uyghur: پۇختا (puxta)

Anagrams

• tentatively