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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | oblivious, stupid; automatic |
| Synonyms: | asinine, brutish, careless, daydreaming, foolish, forgetful, gratuitous, heedless, idiotic, imbecilic, inattentive, mooning, moony, moronic, neglectful, negligent, nitwitted, obtuse, out, out of it, rash, senseless, silly, simple, spaced-out, thoughtless, unaware, unintelligent, unmindful, unthinking, witless |
| Antonyms: | intelligent, mindful, thinking, thoughtful |
| Main Entry: | negligent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | careless, indifferent |
| Synonyms: | asleep at switch, behindhand, cursory, delinquent, derelict, discinct, disregardful, forgetful, heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, inconsiderate, incurious, lax, neglectful, nonchalant, offhand, regardless, remiss, slack, slapdash, slipshod, sloppy*, slovenly, thoughtless, unconcerned, unheedful, unmindful, unthinking |
| Notes: | neglectful means not showing due care or attention, heedless; negligent means marked by insufficient care or attention; negligible means so small as to be meaningless or insignificant |
| Antonyms: | attentive, careful, caring, mindful, successful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | oblivious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unaware, ignorant |
| Synonyms: | absent, absentminded, absorbed, abstracted, amnesic, blind*, blundering, careless, deaf, disregardful, distracted, dreamy, forgetful, forgetting, gone, heedless, inattentive, incognizant, inconversant, insensible, neglectful, negligent, not all there, out to lunch, overlooking, preoccupied, regardless, spacey, strung out, unacquainted, unconcerned, unconscious, undiscerning, unfamiliar, uninformed, uninstructed, unknowing, unmindful, unnoticing, unobservant, unrecognizing, unwitting, zonked |
| Notes: | oblivious means lacking all memory or lacking active conscious awareness or knowledge, while obvious means easily perceived or understood |
| Antonyms: | aware, concerned, conscious, mindful, sensitive, understanding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | off-guard |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unprepared |
| Synonyms: | asleep, asleep on the job, daydreaming, flat-footed, inattentive, napping, spaced out, unalert, unready, unsuspecting, unvigilant, unwatchful, zoned out |
| Main Entry: | perfunctory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | automatic, unthinking |
| Synonyms: | apathetic, careless, cool, cursory, disinterested, going through the motions, heedless, impersonal, inattentive, indifferent, involuntary, lackadaisical, laid-back*, mechanical, negligent, offhand, phoning it in, routine, sketchy, slipshod, slovenly, standard, stereotyped, stock, superficial, unaware, unconcerned, uninterested, usual, walking through it, wooden |
| Notes: | perfunctory is from Latin per- 'through' and fungi 'discharge; perform' meaning 'getting through the doing'; to do something carelessly is to perfunctorize or perfuncturate |
| Antonyms: | careful, precise, thoughtful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rapt |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | absorbed, fascinated |
| Synonyms: | absent, absent-minded, abstracted, beguiled, bewitched, blissful, busy, captivated, carried away, caught up in, charmed, daydreaming, deep*, delighted, dreaming, ecstatic, employed, enamored, engaged, engrossed, enraptured, enthralled, entranced, gripped, happy, held, hung up, hypnotized, immersed, inattentive, intent, involved, lost, oblivious, occupied, overwhelmed, preoccupied, rapturous, ravished, spellbound, taken, transported, unconscious, wrapped, wrapped up |
| Notes: | rapt means deeply moved or wholly absorbed as in thought; wrapped means enclosed securely in a covering of paper or the like |
| Antonyms: | disenchanted, repulsed, turned off |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | reckless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irresponsible in thought, deed |
| Synonyms: | adventuresome, adventurous, any which way, audacious, brash, breakneck, carefree, careless, daredevil, daring, desperate, devil-may-care, fast and loose, feckless, foolhardy, harebrained, hasty, headlong, heedless, helter-skelter, hopeless, hotheaded, ill-advised, imprudent, inattentive, incautious, inconsiderate, indiscreet, kooky, madcap, mindless, negligent, overventuresome, playing with fire, precipitate, rash, regardless, temerarious, thoughtless, uncareful, venturesome, venturous, wild |
| Notes: | feckless means ineffective or having no real worth or purpose; reckless means marked by unthinking boldness or with defiant disregard for danger or consequences rash (the adjective) suggests imprudence and lack of forethought; reckless implies disregard of possible consequences |
| Antonyms: | careful, cautious, responsible, wary |
| Main Entry: | regardless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | indifferent, unconcerned |
| Synonyms: | behindhand, blind, careless, coarse, crude, deaf, delinquent, derelict, disregarding, heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, inconsiderate, insensitive, lax, listless, mindless, neglectful, negligent, nonobservant, rash, reckless, remiss, rude, slack, unfeeling, unheeding, uninterested, unmindful |
| Notes: | regardless is already a negative 'without regard to; despite' - and irregardless is a redundant negative |
| Antonyms: | attentive, concerned, heedful |
| Main Entry: | remiss |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | careless, thoughtless |
| Synonyms: | any old way, any which way, asleep at switch, asleep on job, behindhand, culpable, daydreaming, defaultant, delinquent, derelict, dilatory, disregardful, fainéant, forgetful, heedless, inattentive, indifferent, indolent, lackadaisical, lax, lazy, neglectful, negligent, regardless, slack, slapdash, slipshod, sloppy, slothful, slow, tardy, uninterested, unmindful, woolgathering |
| Antonyms: | careful, mindful, scrupulous, thorough, thoughtful |
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