Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tentively

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
ten-tive-ly
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

attentively

Obsolete

Example Sentences

Etymology

From Middle English tentifly, or by surface analysis, tentive + ly.

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Usage

Inflected Forms

more tentively (comparative) most tentively (superlative)

Questions

What does tentively mean?
attentively
Where does tentively come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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