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Definition of Inattentively
1. Adverb. In an absentminded or preoccupied manner. "He read the letter absently"
Partainyms: Absent, Absentminded, Abstracted, Inattentive
Definition of Inattentively
1. Adverb. In an inattentive manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Inattentively
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inattentively
Literary usage of Inattentively
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Documentary History of American Industrial Society by American Bureau of Industrial Research, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Eugene Allen Gilmore, John Rogers Commons, Helen Laura Sumner (1910)
"If they do mean something else, either they do not express themselves with
sufficient clearness, or we have read them inattentively or stupidly. ..."
2. Nature and Thought: An Introduction to a Natural Philosophy by St. George Jackson Mivart (1882)
"Our intellect then may—for I know mine does—perceive objects directly and
inattentively and also directly and attentively, and no doubt our attentive ..."
3. The Alternative: A Study in Psychology by Edmund R. Clay (1882)
"You attentively perceive self, and inattentively discern (apperceive) self as
... Accordingly, Apperception is discernment that is inattentively referent to ..."
4. The Alternative: A Study in Psychology by Edmund R. Clay (1882)
"You attentively perceive self, and inattentively discern (apperceive) self as
... Accordingly, Apperception is discernment that is inattentively referent to ..."
5. A Japanese-English and English-Japanese Dictionary by James Curtis Hepburn (1886)
"Heedlessly, inattentively, forgetfully, vacantly, idly: — to yomu, to read
inattentively; — toyo wo kurami, to live in au idle way. ..."
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