Inattentive

Antonyms for inattentive:

mindful, heedful, solicitous, diligent, attentive, vigilant, wide-awake, wrapped, observant.

Synonyms for inattentive:

Sense 1

dreamily, lax, feckless, distant, inattention, mindless, bemused, negligence, spaced-out, absently, vaguely, detachment.

Sense 2

unthinking, oblivion, slack.

Sense 3

neglect.

engrossed

rapt.

heedless

regardless.

idle

lackadaisical.

indolent

lazy.

listless

languid.

uninformed

unaware.

ignorant (adjective)

unaware.

inattentive (adjective)

faraway, negligent, Absent-minded, aloof, napping, preoccupied, distracted, unmindful, unconcerned, heedless, detached, thoughtless, oblivious, unheedful, absent, dreamy, befuddled, wandering, Ignoring, Disregardful, disinterested, inadvertent, unconscious, uninterested.

neglectful (adjective)

perfunctory, slapdash, thoughtless, clumsy, shoddy, sloppy, inconsiderate, negligent, hit-and-miss, remiss, forgetful, slovenly, slipshod, unheedful, bumbling, neglectful, derelict, reckless, Disregardful, unmindful, haphazard, senile, careless, inadvertent.

negligent, not paying attention (adjective)

heedless, neglectful, unmindful, absentminded, listless, preoccupied, dreamy, unconscious, regardless, inadvertent, distracted, rapt, oblivious, unwatchful, absent, faraway, careless, unheeding, unthinking, unobservant, distrait, indifferent, remiss, thoughtless.

off-guard (adjective)

unalert, napping, unwatchful, unvigilant.

reckless (adjective)

hectic, negligent, nonchalant, thoughtless, rash, indifferent, irresponsible, imprudent, wild, daring, careless, brash, reckless, unmindful, foolhardy, heedless, frantic.

unaware (adjective)

uninformed, unknowing, unobservant, incognizant, unconscious, deaf to, ignorant, preoccupied, oblivious, insensible.

unheeding (adjective)

unheeding.

Sense 1 (noun)

distant, spaced-out.

Sense 2 (noun)

bemused.

Sense 3 (noun)

feckless, unthinking.

inattentive (noun)

drowsy, deaf to, abstracted, scatty, unalert, neglectful, uninterested, absent, unlistening, dreamy, distracted, oscitant, woolgathering, distrait, unheeding, unvigilant, absentminded, yawning, moony, deaf, unwatchful, unobservant.

Usage examples for inattentive:

• To all other women he must be a little blind, a little deaf, politely inattentive. - "The Passionate Friends", Herbert George Wells.
• I was being abominably inattentive; I was thinking of something else. - "The Splendid Folly", Margaret Pedler.