ATTENTIVELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does attentively mean? 

• ATTENTIVELY (adverb)
  The adverb ATTENTIVELY has 1 sense:

1. with attention; in an attentive manner

  Familiarity information: ATTENTIVELY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ATTENTIVELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With attention; in an attentive manner

Context example:

he listened attentively

Pertainym:

attentive ((often followed by 'to') giving care or attention)

 Context examples 

I listened attentively to the good old fellow, and acquiesced, with all my heart, in what he said.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Now lean back, and listen attentively to whatever I may care to say to you.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From that moment I observed my friend's behaviour attentively; and I could then perceive that his partiality for Miss Bennet was beyond what I had ever witnessed in him.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

These activities are performed on a computer or tablet, and require the participant to focus their attention and respond attentively to situations in which the dominant responses are not correct.

(Study reveals attention training improves intelligence and brain function of children, University of Granada)

He entered attentively into all my arguments in favour of my eventual success and into every minute detail of the measures I had taken to secure it.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Holmes listened attentively to everything, throwing in a question from time to time.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then the Count turned, after looking at my face attentively, and said in a soft whisper:—Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I obeyed him; then he put the glass on the table, stood before me, and looked at me attentively.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A careful explanation followed, to which he listened so attentively that his anxious grandmother said, My dear, do you think it wise to talk about such things to that baby?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“Fanny,” said Edmund, after looking at her attentively, “I am sure you have the headache.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)