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View definitions for overlooked

overlooked

adjective as in missed

Weak match

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Getting men to do their share of care and domestic work is a key overlooked strategy in reducing poverty.

Selma becomes a biopic in which the hero shines while those who worked beside him are overlooked or relegated to the sidelines.

Even worse, Asian Americans are overlooked entirely when some advocates or politicians speak about minorities.

Fiquet has been largely overlooked, if not outright disdained, by critics and art historians.

I'm not sure if archaeologists are naturally drawn to "losers"—or can we call them overlooked people?

I don't know why, unless he had some money they had overlooked and was afraid they might come back for another try at him.

If Mazaroff had not been so angry he could not have possibly overlooked so serious a slip on the part of his companion.

"I hardly know," was the novelist's reply, as in a navy serge suit he leaned near the window which overlooked the Thames.

The Committee has not overlooked the fact that in some cases this attitude may have been due to a defensive reaction.

She was seated, one evening, plying her ever active needle, at the same small window which overlooked the churchyard.

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On this page you'll find 13 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to overlooked, such as: forgotten, neglected, unnoticed, excluded, missing, and omitted.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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