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overlooking
adjective as in oblivious
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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
- preoccupied
- regardless
- spacey
- strung-out
- unacquainted
- unconscious
- undiscerning
- uninstructed
- unknowing
- unmindful
- unnoticing
- unobservant
- unrecognizing
- unwitting
- zonked
adjective as in omitting
adverb as in beside
Weak matches
noun as in default
noun as in disregard
Strong matches
Weak match
noun as in forgiveness
noun as in omission
Strong matches
noun as in oversight
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Example Sentences
William McGreanery, 41, died on 15 September 1971, after a soldier opened fire from an Army observation post overlooking the Bogside.
Mr McGreanery, a shop assistant, was shot after a member of the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards – known as Soldier A - opened fire from an Army sanger overlooking the junctions of Eastway, Lone Moor Road and Westland Street.
When authorities did not free the prisoners, he posted an image taken from high up overlooking a busy junction in the capital Tehran on X.
He said he was most looking forward to enjoying his morning coffee overlooking the Antarctic landscape and "hopefully seeing a whale or two".
Within their embrace, alone on the switchbacks overlooking the city, it was safe to let go.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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