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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ignorant |
| Synonyms: | blind, careless, caught napping, daydreaming, deaf, deaf to, doped, forgetful, heedless, in a daze, inattentive, incognizant, inconversant, insensible, mooning, negligent, nescient, not all there, not cognizant, oblivious, out cold, out of it, out to lunch, spacey, unacquainted, unconcerned, unconscious, unenlightened, unfamiliar, uninformed, uninstructed, unknowing, unmindful, unsuspecting, unwitting |
| Notes: | unaware is an adjective that means 'not being aware of something' and unawares is an adverb meaning 'by surprise; unexpectedly' |
| Antonyms: | aware, cognizant, informed, knowing, suspicious |
| Main Entry: | deaf |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unwilling |
| Synonyms: | bullheaded, headstrong, indifferent, intractable, mulish, oblivious, obstinate, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, self-willed, strong-willed, stubborn, to listen blind, unaware, unconcerned, unhearing, unmoved |
| Antonyms: | attentive, aware, conscious, listening, willing |
| Main Entry: | mindless |
| 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: | 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: | preoccupied |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | busy; mentally caught up in something |
| Synonyms: | absent, absent-minded, absorbed, abstracted, airheaded, asleep, bemused, bugged, daydreaming, deep*, distracted, distrait, engaged, engrossed, faraway, fascinated, forgetful, have on the brain, heedless, hung up, immersed, inconscient, intent, lost, lost in thought, mooning, moony, oblivious, obsessed, rapt, removed, spellbound, spread out, taken up, unaware, woolgathering, wrapped-up |
| Notes: | occupied means in use or seized and controlled as by military invasion; preoccupied means deeply absorbed in thought or having compulsive concern with something |
| Antonyms: | observant, thoughtful, unoccupied |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | short |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | abruptly |
| Synonyms: | aback, by surprise, forthwith, sudden, suddenly, unanticipatedly, unaware, unawares, unexpectedly, without delay, without hesitation, without warning |
| Antonyms: | long |
| Main Entry: | suddenly |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | unexpectedly |
| Synonyms: | aback, abruptly, all at once, all of a sudden, asudden, forthwith, on spur of moment, quickly, short, sudden, swiftly, unanticipatedly, unaware, unawares, without warning |
| Antonyms: | expectedly, slowly |
| Main Entry: | unadvised |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not smart; careless |
| Synonyms: | brash, hasty, heedless, hot-headed, ignorant, ill-advised, imprudent, in the dark, inadvisable, incautious, inconsiderate, indiscreet, injudicious, rash, reckless, thoughtless, unaware, unconsidered, uninformed, unknowing, unsuspecting, unwarned, unwary, unwise |
| Antonyms: | advised, wise |
| Main Entry: | unconscious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ignorant; automatic |
| Synonyms: | accidental, gut, inadvertent, inattentive, inherent, innate, instinctive, involuntary, latent, lost, reflex, repressed, subconscious, subliminal, suppressed, unaware, uncalculated, undeliberate, unheeding, unintended, unintentional, unmindful, unpremeditated, unrealized, unwitting |
| Antonyms: | aware, conscious, decided, intended, intentional, knowing |
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