advertent
adj/ədˈvɜːtn̩t/UK/ədˈvɝtn̩t/US
Etymology
Apparently a back-formation from inadvertent, or a learned borrowing from Latin advertent-, advertens, present participle of advertere, from the verb adverto (“to give or draw attention to”)
- learned borrowing from advertent
Definitions
Attentive.
- Is he rich, prosperous, great? yet he continues safe, because he continues humble, watchful, advertent, lest he should be deceived and transported
Not inadvertent
Not inadvertent; intentional.
- There is such thing as advertent negligence in which the harm is foreseen as possible or probable.
- Until the 1950s, for judges both the conceptual and terminological identification of advertent risk taking — subjective recklessness — often lay submerged within the amorphous notion of 'malice' [....]
The neighborhood
- synonympurposeful
- synonympurposive
- synonymintentional
- antonyminadvertentantonym(s) of “intentional”
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for advertent. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA