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in attentive
adjective as in inattentive
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Weak matches
- absent
- absentminded
- blind
- distrait
- diverted
- dreamy
- faraway
- heedless
- inadvertent
- inobservant
- listless
- lost
- musing
- neglectful
- off-guard
- out to lunch
- preoccupied
- rapt
- regardless
- remiss
- removed
- scatterbrained
- thoughtless
- unconscious
- undiscerning
- unheeding
- unmindful
- unnoticing
- unobservant
- unobserving
- unperceiving
- unthinking
- unwatchful
- vague
adjective as in indifferent
Strongest matches
adjective as in lackadaisical
adjective as in absent-minded
Weak matches
- absent
- absorbed
- abstracted
- airheaded
- bemused
- careless
- distracted
- distrait
- dreaming
- dreamy
- engrossed
- faraway
- forgetful
- goofing off
- head in the clouds
- heedless
- inattentive
- inconscient
- lost
- mooning
- moony
- oblivious
- out to lunch
- pipe dreaming
- preoccupied
- remote
- removed
- scatterbrained
- space cadet
- spacey
- unaware of events
- unconscious
- unheeding
- unmindful
- unobservant
- unthinking
- withdrawn
- woolgathering
adjective as in lazy
Strongest matches
Weak matches
adjective as in listless
Strongest matches
Weak matches
adjective as in mindless
adjective as in neglectful
adjective as in negligent
adjective as in oblivious
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- absent
- absentminded
- absorbed
- abstracted
- amnesic
- blundering
- careless
- disregardful
- distracted
- dreamy
- forgetful
- forgetting
- gone
- heedless
- incognizant
- inconversant
- insensible
- neglectful
- negligent
- not all there
- out to lunch
- overlooking
- preoccupied
- regardless
- spacey
- strung-out
- unacquainted
- unconscious
- undiscerning
- uninstructed
- unknowing
- unmindful
- unnoticing
- unobservant
- unrecognizing
- unwitting
- zonked
adjective as in off-guard
adjective as in abstracted
Strongest matches
Strong match
adjective as in perfunctory
Strongest matches
adjective as in rapt
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- absent
- absent-minded
- abstracted
- beguiled
- bewitched
- blissful
- busy
- captivated
- carried away
- caught up in
- charmed
- daydreaming
- deep
- dreaming
- employed
- enamored
- engaged
- engrossed
- enraptured
- entranced
- gripped
- happy
- held
- hung up
- hypnotized
- immersed
- intent
- involved
- lost
- oblivious
- occupied
- overwhelmed
- preoccupied
- ravished
- taken
- transported
- unconscious
- wrapped
- wrapped-up
adjective as in reckless
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- adventuresome
- adventurous
- any which way
- breakneck
- daredevil
- desperate
- devil-may-care
- fast and loose
- feckless
- harebrained
- headlong
- heedless
- helter-skelter
- hopeless
- hotheaded
- inattentive
- incautious
- inconsiderate
- indiscreet
- kooky
- madcap
- mindless
- overventuresome
- playing with fire
- precipitate
- rash
- regardless
- temerarious
- uncareful
- venturesome
- venturous
- wild
adjective as in regardless
adjective as in remiss
Weak matches
- any old way
- any which way
- asleep at switch
- asleep on job
- behindhand
- culpable
- daydreaming
- defaultant
- delinquent
- derelict
- dilatory
- disregardful
- fainéant
- forgetful
- heedless
- inattentive
- indifferent
- indolent
- lackadaisical
- lax
- lazy
- neglectful
- negligent
- regardless
- slack
- slapdash
- slipshod
- sloppy
- slothful
- slow
- tardy
- uninterested
- unmindful
- woolgathering
adjective as in scatterbrained
adjective as in shiftless
adjective as in slack
Strongest matches
adjective as in sloppy
adjective as in slothful
adjective as in superficial
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- apparent
- casual
- cosmetic
- depthless
- desultory
- empty
- evident
- exterior
- external
- flash
- flimsy
- general
- glib
- half-baked
- hasty
- hurried
- ignorant
- inattentive
- lightweight
- nodding
- on the surface
- ostensible
- outward
- partial
- passing
- peripheral
- quick-fix
- seeming
- shallow
- shoal
- skin-deep
- slapdash
- smattery
- summary
- surface
- tip of the iceberg
- uncritical
- warped
adjective as in thoughtless
Strongest matches
Weak matches
adjective as in thoughtless
Weak matches
adjective as in unaware
Strongest matches
Strong match
adjective as in unconcerned
Strongest matches
adjective as in unconscious
adjective as in uninformed
adjective as in unknowing
adjective as in bored
Strongest matches
Strong match
adjective as in distracted
Strongest matches
Strong match
adjective as in blind
adjective as in devil-may-care
adjective as in unmindful
adjective as in unheeding
Strong match
adjective as in unmindful
adjective as in unobservant
adjective as in bemused
Strongest match
Strong matches
Weak matches
adjective as in distrait
adjective as in one-dimensional
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- apparent
- casual
- cosmetic
- cursory
- depthless
- desultory
- empty
- evident
- exterior
- external
- flash
- flimsy
- frivolous
- general
- glib
- half-baked
- hasty
- hurried
- ignorant
- inattentive
- lightweight
- nodding
- on the surface
- ostensible
- outward
- partial
- passing
- perfunctory
- quick-fix
- seeming
- shoal
- silly
- skin-deep
- slapdash
- slight
- smattery
- summary
- surface
- tip of the iceberg
- trivial
- uncritical
adjective as in purblind
adjective as in spaced-out
adjective as in uncomprehending
adjective as in unperceptive
adjective as in unthoughtful
Weak matches
- antisocial
- apathetic
- asocial
- blind
- boorish
- brash
- deaf
- discourteous
- disregardful
- egocentric
- hasty
- heedless
- hot-headed
- impolite
- inattentive
- incautious
- inconsiderate
- indelicate
- indifferent
- indiscreet
- insensitive
- listless
- madcap
- neglectful
- negligent
- primitive
- rash
- reckless
- rude
- self-centered
- selfish
- sharp
- short
- tactless
- uncaring
- unceremonious
- unconcerned
- undiplomatic
- ungracious
- unheeding
- unkind
- unmindful
- unrefined
- unthinking
adjective as in forgetful
Strongest matches
Strong match
adjective as in heedless
Strongest matches
adjective as in inattentive
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- absent
- absentminded
- blind
- distrait
- diverted
- dreamy
- faraway
- heedless
- inadvertent
- inobservant
- listless
- lost
- musing
- neglectful
- off-guard
- out to lunch
- preoccupied
- rapt
- regardless
- remiss
- removed
- scatterbrained
- thoughtless
- unconscious
- undiscerning
- unheeding
- unmindful
- unnoticing
- unobservant
- unobserving
- unperceiving
- unthinking
- unwatchful
- vague
adjective as in indifferent
Strongest matches
adjective as in lackadaisical
adjective as in absent-minded
Weak matches
- absent
- absorbed
- abstracted
- airheaded
- bemused
- careless
- distracted
- distrait
- dreaming
- dreamy
- engrossed
- faraway
- forgetful
- goofing off
- head in the clouds
- heedless
- inattentive
- inconscient
- lost
- mooning
- moony
- oblivious
- out to lunch
- pipe dreaming
- preoccupied
- remote
- removed
- scatterbrained
- space cadet
- spacey
- unaware of events
- unconscious
- unheeding
- unmindful
- unobservant
- unthinking
- withdrawn
- woolgathering
adjective as in lazy
Strongest matches
Weak matches
adjective as in listless
Strongest matches
Weak matches
adjective as in mindless
adjective as in neglectful
adjective as in negligent
adjective as in oblivious
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- absent
- absentminded
- absorbed
- abstracted
- amnesic
- blundering
- careless
- disregardful
- distracted
- dreamy
- forgetful
- forgetting
- gone
- heedless
- incognizant
- inconversant
- insensible
- neglectful
- negligent
- not all there
- out to lunch
- overlooking
- preoccupied
- regardless
- spacey
- strung-out
- unacquainted
- unconscious
- undiscerning
- uninstructed
- unknowing
- unmindful
- unnoticing
- unobservant
- unrecognizing
- unwitting
- zonked
adjective as in off-guard
adjective as in abstracted
Strongest matches
Strong match
adjective as in perfunctory
Strongest matches
adjective as in rapt
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- absent
- absent-minded
- abstracted
- beguiled
- bewitched
- blissful
- busy
- captivated
- carried away
- caught up in
- charmed
- daydreaming
- deep
- dreaming
- employed
- enamored
- engaged
- engrossed
- enraptured
- entranced
- gripped
- happy
- held
- hung up
- hypnotized
- immersed
- intent
- involved
- lost
- oblivious
- occupied
- overwhelmed
- preoccupied
- ravished
- taken
- transported
- unconscious
- wrapped
- wrapped-up
adjective as in reckless
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- adventuresome
- adventurous
- any which way
- breakneck
- daredevil
- desperate
- devil-may-care
- fast and loose
- feckless
- harebrained
- headlong
- heedless
- helter-skelter
- hopeless
- hotheaded
- inattentive
- incautious
- inconsiderate
- indiscreet
- kooky
- madcap
- mindless
- overventuresome
- playing with fire
- precipitate
- rash
- regardless
- temerarious
- uncareful
- venturesome
- venturous
- wild
adjective as in regardless
adjective as in remiss
Weak matches
- any old way
- any which way
- asleep at switch
- asleep on job
- behindhand
- culpable
- daydreaming
- defaultant
- delinquent
- derelict
- dilatory
- disregardful
- fainéant
- forgetful
- heedless
- inattentive
- indifferent
- indolent
- lackadaisical
- lax
- lazy
- neglectful
- negligent
- regardless
- slack
- slapdash
- slipshod
- sloppy
- slothful
- slow
- tardy
- uninterested
- unmindful
- woolgathering
adjective as in scatterbrained
adjective as in shiftless
adjective as in slack
Strongest matches
adjective as in sloppy
adjective as in slothful
adjective as in superficial
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- apparent
- casual
- cosmetic
- depthless
- desultory
- empty
- evident
- exterior
- external
- flash
- flimsy
- general
- glib
- half-baked
- hasty
- hurried
- ignorant
- inattentive
- lightweight
- nodding
- on the surface
- ostensible
- outward
- partial
- passing
- peripheral
- quick-fix
- seeming
- shallow
- shoal
- skin-deep
- slapdash
- smattery
- summary
- surface
- tip of the iceberg
- uncritical
- warped
adjective as in thoughtless
Strongest matches
Weak matches
adjective as in thoughtless
Weak matches
adjective as in unaware
Strongest matches
Strong match
adjective as in unconcerned
Strongest matches
adjective as in unconscious
adjective as in uninformed
adjective as in unknowing
adjective as in bored
Strongest matches
Strong match
adjective as in distracted
Strongest matches
Strong match
adjective as in blind
adjective as in devil-may-care
adjective as in unmindful
adjective as in unheeding
Strong match
adjective as in unmindful
adjective as in unobservant
adjective as in bemused
Strongest match
Strong matches
Weak matches
adjective as in distrait
adjective as in one-dimensional
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- apparent
- casual
- cosmetic
- cursory
- depthless
- desultory
- empty
- evident
- exterior
- external
- flash
- flimsy
- frivolous
- general
- glib
- half-baked
- hasty
- hurried
- ignorant
- inattentive
- lightweight
- nodding
- on the surface
- ostensible
- outward
- partial
- passing
- perfunctory
- quick-fix
- seeming
- shoal
- silly
- skin-deep
- slapdash
- slight
- smattery
- summary
- surface
- tip of the iceberg
- trivial
- uncritical
adjective as in purblind
adjective as in spaced-out
adjective as in uncomprehending
adjective as in unperceptive
adjective as in unthoughtful
Weak matches
- antisocial
- apathetic
- asocial
- blind
- boorish
- brash
- deaf
- discourteous
- disregardful
- egocentric
- hasty
- heedless
- hot-headed
- impolite
- inattentive
- incautious
- inconsiderate
- indelicate
- indifferent
- indiscreet
- insensitive
- listless
- madcap
- neglectful
- negligent
- primitive
- rash
- reckless
- rude
- self-centered
- selfish
- sharp
- short
- tactless
- uncaring
- unceremonious
- unconcerned
- undiplomatic
- ungracious
- unheeding
- unkind
- unmindful
- unrefined
- unthinking
adjective as in forgetful
Strongest matches
Strong match
adjective as in heedless
Strongest matches
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On this page you'll find 1594 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to in-attentive, such as: apathetic, bored, careless, distracted, distraught, and indifferent.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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