ATTENTIVELY Synonyms: 66 Similar and Opposite Words

attentively

adverb

as in conscientiously

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Recent Examples of attentively Anyway, Evelyn appeared to be listening attentively to Jack, though her eyes remained glued to the stage. — Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2026 Gnocchi sits attentively on a Beverly Grove sidewalk with his owner, Julia Luke. — Emily Tarinelli, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026 An interesting and useful way to attentively explore the LMS is via the use of AI personas. — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026 Normal in the sense that Shanahan has attentively watched every practice, typically doing so about 30 yards behind the defense. — Cam Inman, Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2026 The Child has placed his foot on the basket of yarns and has grasped the yarnwinder and gazes attentively at the four spokes that are in the form of a cross. — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 3 Aug. 2026 At one point during the BBC’s broadcast of the event, as shared by a fan on X, the cameras cut to show Kate explaining something about the match to her daughter, who looked on attentively and nodded. — Meg Walters, InStyle, 14 July 2026 Some active kids glossed over at the lengthy speeches, some watched and listened attentively, eyes sparkling at the work that was put in to launch the league and at the possibility of playing professional soccer. — Pj Green july 11, Kansas City Star, 12 July 2026 Two of my cousins, both women in their early 20s, came to sit behind me a few minutes into the interview, watching attentively. — Eythana Miller, The Dial, 23 June 2026

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One way in which Wounaan do so is conscientiously sharing and redistributing food, money, wisdom and the like to foster equity.

— Chenier Carpio Opua, The Conversation, 5 Aug. 2026
By thinking locally, building conscientiously, and operationalizing sustainability in our deployment choices, AI users, companies, and developers can also help ensure that the infrastructure powering our future doesn’t cost us the earth.

— Sasha Luccioni, Time, 3 July 2026

Definition of conscientiously

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Small liberal-arts colleges focus almost exclusively on undergraduate education and are earnestly committed to the arts and letters.

— Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2026
Roberts came away from the conversation excited by how earnestly Heyward embraced that message.

— Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of earnestly

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It has also only been trained on a limited number of cell types that biologists have studied exhaustively.

— John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 9 Sep. 2026
Preservation Connecticut’s searchable surveys, built in collaboration with the State Historic Preservation Office, exhaustively document historic barns, mills, artistic places, and town greens in every part of the state.

— Jane Montanaro, Hartford Courant, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of exhaustively

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These materials were chosen to reflect the sky, water, and painstakingly landscaped gardens around the building to connect the interiors to the environment outside.

— Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 21 Sep. 2026
Marie painstakingly builds the abbey into a regional power center to which notables must pay their respects.

— David Faris, TheWeek, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of painstakingly

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And there is a shocking dearth of evidence to the contrary, given how ardently Peters and her supporters have clung to this narrative for the past six years.

— The Denver Post Editorial Board, Denver Post, 7 July 2026
Kevan Harris, an associate professor of sociology at UCLA who has studied the Iranian diaspora, said some of the ardently monarchist Iranians became disillusioned and demobilized when the war’s initial objective of regime change failed.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2026

Definition of ardently

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Costume designer Amy Roth watched hours and hours of footage of a young Stallone to nail the feel of his wardrobe, while production designer Anthony Gasparro meticulously recreated the sets from the 1976 movie.

— Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 26 Sep. 2026
The hotel first opened in 1915, but has since been meticulously restored and provides a charming home base for exploring nearby shops, restaurants, and galleries.

— Kristy Tolley, Travel + Leisure, 26 Sep. 2026

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