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Unduly or excessively observant or mindful.

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Usage examples (6)
  • Adjective : an attentive audience. ,an attentive host
  • Sometimes it is lawlessness, sometimes overattentive law enforcement.
  • I found the service to be extremely overattentive at the hostess station when we first arrived to the point of annoying.
  • Oh, because it is OBVIOUS that Steele is talking about Demoncrats and the DNC and the national liberal media that takes special zeal in thier overattentive denegrating,...
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