advertent

1. 1.

   giving attention

   Synonymsheedful

   Similarattentive

Questions about advertent

What does advertent mean?

advertent means "giving attention".

How many syllables are in advertent?

advertent has 3 syllables: ad-ver-tent. The stress falls on "ad".

What is another word for advertent?

Close synonyms include heedful. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is advertent a common word?

advertent is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.