attentive
adjective
at·ten·tive
ə-ˈten-tiv 
2
: heedful of the comfort of others : solicitous
an attentive waitress
3
: offering attentions in or as if in the role of a suitor
an attentive boyfriend
attentively
adverb
attentiveness
noun
Examples of attentive in a Sentence
The hospital is proud of its attentive staff.
Our waiter was very attentive.
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Rory Linnane, jsonline.com, 1 Aug. 2025
Yet Chekhov’s attentive, observant witness of these souls struggling feels like a kind of a divine love.
—Philip Metres
july 30, Literary Hub, 30 July 2025
This comes at a timely moment for US policymakers, who have been increasingly attentive to the crisis of children being exploited online.
—Samson Inocencio Jr, CNN Money, 30 July 2025
With that, Gemini executed the malicious commands silently, with no indication to even an attentive user that anything was amiss.
LLMs just want to be loved
The prompt injection was also crafted to appeal to LLMs’ inborn propensity to please their users, a trait researchers call AI sycophancy.
—Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 30 July 2025
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“Attentive.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/attentive. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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attentive
adjective
at·ten·tive
ə-ˈtent-iv
1
: paying attention
2
: thoughtful for the welfare or comfort of others : courteous
attentively
adverb
attentiveness
noun
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