Advertisement
Advertisement
oblivious
adjective as in unaware, ignorant
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- absent
- absentminded
- absorbed
- abstracted
- amnesic
- blundering
- careless
- disregardful
- distracted
- dreamy
- forgetful
- forgetting
- gone
- heedless
- incognizant
- inconversant
- insensible
- neglectful
- negligent
- not all there
- out to lunch
- overlooking
- preoccupied
- regardless
- spacey
- strung-out
- unacquainted
- unconscious
- undiscerning
- uninstructed
- unknowing
- unmindful
- unnoticing
- unobservant
- unrecognizing
- unwitting
- zonked
Example Sentences
Oliver continues to watch cartoons on a portable screen, oblivious to the potential importance of what's just happened.
His incarceration means he has been oblivious to the way so many aspects of everyday life have changed - almost like someone who has been asleep since the 1980s.
An MP said the approach was "utterly unhinged and self-destructive," adding: "They're in the bunker shooting everyone who's outside the bunker guarding it. And poor oblivious Keir doesn't even realise he's in the bunker."
They also note that their superiors may be oblivious to the parallel conversations that are now a key part of meeting culture.
They were utterly obliterated by a Blue Jays squad that seemed completely oblivious to the idea that they were here to serve as spectators to the Dodgers’ inevitable coronation.
Advertisement
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse