unrecognizing

ADJECTIVE

oblivious

Synonyms

STRONGEST

blind deaf inattentive unconcerned unfamiliar uninformed

WEAK

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 unwitting zonked

Antonyms

STRONGEST

attentive aware

WEAK

concerned conscious mindful sensitive understanding

Example Sentences

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Barney looked back at it with unrecognizing eyes,—this gentle, misty, blue vagueness was not the solemn, sombre mountain that he knew.

From The Young Mountaineers Short Stories by Fraser, Malcolm

As Mrs. Sancy pronounced the last sentence, she seemed for the moment to have forgotten my presence, and stood, looking off over the calm grey sea, with absent unrecognizing gaze.

From The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems by Victor, Frances Fuller

Colonel Butler turned an unrecognizing glance on the boy.

From The Flag by Greene, Homer

"Are you an angel?" he asked, with unrecognizing eyes.

From The Angel of the Gila: A Tale of Arizona by Marsland, Cora

Time enough when he was again flung out on that merciless, unrecognizing world he had come to loathe; loathe and dread.

From Garrison's Finish : a romance of the race course by Ferguson, W. B. M. (William Blair Morton)

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