Dictionary

advertent en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ədˈvɝtn̩t/ (General-American)
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• /ədˈvɜːtn̩t/ (Received-Pronunciation)

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”)

Meanings

1. Attentive.
   • Is he rich, prosperous, great? yet he continues safe, because he continues humble, watchful, advertent, lest he should be deceived and transported 1828, Matthew Hale, David Young, On the Knowledge of Christ Crucified: And Other Divine Contemplations, page 227:
2. Not inadvertent; intentional.
   • There is such thing as advertent negligence in which the harm is foreseen as possible or probable. 1963, Philippine Law Journal, page 442:
   • 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' [....] 1998, Keith John Michael Smith, Lawyers, Legislators and Theorists: Developments in English Criminal Law, page 283:

Forms

Antonyms

inadvertent (antonym(s) of “intentional”)

Deriveds

advertently

Synonyms

intentional · purposeful · deliberate (intentional) · purposive