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un-discerning
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sightless |
| Synonyms: | amaurotic, blind as a bat, dark, destitute of vision, eyeless, groping, in darkness, purblind, typhlotic, undiscerning, unseeing, unsighted, visionless |
| Antonyms: | seeing, sighted |
| Main Entry: | inattentive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | negligent, not paying attention |
| Synonyms: | absent, absentminded, apathetic, blind, bored, careless, distracted, distrait, distraught, diverted, dreamy, faraway, heedless, inadvertent, indifferent, inobservant, listless, lost*, musing, neglectful, oblivious, off-guard, out to lunch, preoccupied, rapt, regardless, remiss, removed, scatterbrained, thoughtless, unconscious, undiscerning, unheeding, unmindful, unnoticing, unobservant, unobserving, unperceiving, unthinking, unwatchful, vague |
| Antonyms: | attentive, heedful, looking, noticing, observant |
* = 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: | thoughtless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | absent-minded, unobservant |
| Synonyms: | bovine, careless, confused, doltish, dull, empty-headed, flighty, foolish, heedless, ill-advised, ill-considered, imprudent, inadvertent, inane, inattentive, incomprehensible, inept, injudicious, irrational, irreflective, lamebrained, loony, mindless, neglectful, negligent, obtuse, puerile, rash, reckless, regardless, remiss, senseless, silly, stupid, undiscerning, unheeding, unmindful, unreasonable, unreasoning, unreflective, unthinking, vacuous, witless |
| Antonyms: | attentive, heeding, mindful, observant, thoughtful |
| Main Entry: | uncritical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | casual, unfussy |
| Synonyms: | careless, cursory, easily pleased, imperceptive, imprecise, imprudent, inaccurate, indiscriminate, offhand, perfunctory, shallow, slipshod, superficial, undiscerning, undiscriminating, unexacting, uninformed, unperceptive, unselective, unthinking |
| Antonyms: | critical, discriminating, formal, fussy, important |
| Main Entry: | purblind |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | blind |
| Synonyms: | careless, dull, heedless, ignorant, imperceptive, inattentive, inconsiderate, indiscriminate, injudicious, insensitive, myopic, nearsighted, neglectful, oblivious, thoughtless, unaware, uncomprehending, unconscious, undiscerning, unmindful, unobservant, unperceiving, unperceptive, unreasoning, unseeing |
| Main Entry: | uncomprehending |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | blind |
| Synonyms: | careless, dull, heedless, ignorant, imperceptive, inattentive, inconsiderate, indiscriminate, injudicious, insensitive, myopic, nearsighted, neglectful, oblivious, purblind, thoughtless, unaware, unconscious, undiscerning, unmindful, unobservant, unperceiving, unperceptive, unreasoning, unseeing |
| Main Entry: | unperceptive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | blind |
| Synonyms: | careless, dull, heedless, ignorant, imperceptive, inattentive, inconsiderate, indiscriminate, injudicious, insensitive, myopic, nearsighted, neglectful, oblivious, purblind, thoughtless, unaware, uncomprehending, unconscious, undiscerning, unmindful, unobservant, unperceiving, unreasoning, unseeing |
| Main Entry: | unseeing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | blind |
| Synonyms: | amaurotic, blind as a bat, dark, destitute of vision, eyeless, groping, in darkness, purblind, sightless, typhlotic, undiscerning, unsighted, visionless |
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