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oblivious
adjective as in unaware, ignorant
Strongest matches
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
- overlooking
- preoccupied
- regardless
- spacey
- strung-out
- unacquainted
- unconscious
- undiscerning
- uninstructed
- unknowing
- unmindful
- unnoticing
- unobservant
- unrecognizing
- unwitting
- zonked
Example Sentences
When she was about 5, she disappeared for hours to a dark henhouse to see how chickens laid eggs, so absorbed that she was oblivious to her family’s frantic search for her.
They'll have plenty of time to perfect it next year, though, when the whole clan set off on tour together, apparently oblivious to the fact that most family road trips end in disaster.
He locked himself in a bathroom and, when he emerged, was "completely naked and oblivious" to the fact he had no clothes on, prosecution barrister Natasha Lake said.
"We're not oblivious to the scale of the problem. We were aware of it before the summer, but the last two weeks have made it more difficult," is how one senior figure put it.
When the oblivious owner of the vehicle comes out, Nuñez is the one to deliver the tragic news.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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