different between attentive vs urbane

English

Etymology

From Middle English attentif, attentijf, from Old French attentif.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t?nt?v/

Adjective

attentive (comparative more attentive, superlative most attentive)

1. Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.

   She is an attentive listener, but does not like to talk much.

   • 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 94):

     King-of-the-Sky was sitting alone in the Leeward Village meeting-house, gesticulating to the attentive shades of night, roaring out the genealogy of his ancestors, telling the sleeping world of his greatness.

2. Courteous; mindful.

   a husband attentive to his wife's needs

Synonyms

• audient
• mindful
• reckful

Antonyms

• inattentive, reckless

Translations

See also

• alert
• wary
• watchful

Anagrams

• tentative

French

Adjective

attentive

1. feminine singular of attentif

English

Etymology

From Middle French urbain (“urban, belonging to a city; also: polite, courteous, elegant, urbane”), from Latin urb?nus (“belonging to a city”), with a sense of “having the manners of townspeople” in Classical Latin, from urbs (“city”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???be?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??be?n/
• Rhymes: -e?n

Adjective

urbane (comparative more urbane, superlative most urbane)

1. (of a man) Courteous, polite, refined, and suave.
   • 1949: George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, p12
   • 2017 September 27, David Browne, "Hugh Hefner, 'Playboy' Founder, Dead at 91," Rolling Stone

     And with his trademark smoking jackets and pipes – and the silk pajamas he would often wear to work – Hefner became the embodiment of a sexually adventurous yet urbane image and lifestyle, a seeming role model for generations of men.

     He felt deeply drawn to him, and not solely because he was intrigued by the contrast between O’Brien’s urbane manner and his prize-fighter’s physique.

   Antonym: rustic

Related terms

• urban

Translations

References

• The Concise Oxford English Dictionary [Eleventh Edition]

Anagrams

• unbare, unbear

German

Adjective

urbane

1. inflection of urban:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Adjective

urbane

1. feminine plural of urbano

Latin

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ur?ba?.ne/, [?r?bä?n?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ur?ba.ne/, [ur?b??n?]

Noun

urb?ne

1. vocative singular of urb?nus

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ur?ba?.ne?/, [?r?bä?ne?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ur?ba.ne/, [ur?b??n?]

Adverb

urb?n? (comparative urb?nius, superlative urb?nissim?)

1. urbanely

References

• urbane in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• urbane in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

urbane

1. definite singular and plural of urban

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

urbane

1. definite singular and plural of urban