inattentive

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

INATTENT'IVE, adjective [in and attentive.] Not fixing the mind on an object; heedless; careless; negligent; regardless; as an inattentive spectator or hearer, an inattentive habit.
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