Thesaurus / oblivious
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In turn, some bicyclists complain of “oblivious” pedestrians stepping out into their path or sauntering across bike lanes.
THE INTERSECTION IS A CITY’S WATERING HOLE, AND IT’S TEEMING WITH LIFE AND DANGERWTAYLORAUGUST 20, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEA whole universe of particles exists, and we are mostly oblivious, largely because these particles are invisible.
HOW PARTICLE DETECTORS CAPTURE MATTER’S HIDDEN, BEAUTIFUL REALITYEMILY CONOVERAUGUST 5, 2021SCIENCE NEWSAfter a warm reception to those promos — particularly from the soccer community — the writing quartet of Sudeikis, Hunt, Joe Kelly and Bill Lawrence reimagined the brashly oblivious Lasso for a full series.
‘TED LASSO,’ BUILT ON CHARM AND EMPATHY, WON OVER AMERICA. IT WON OVER THE SOCCER WORLD, TOO.THOMAS FLOYDJULY 22, 2021WASHINGTON POSTMaybe, like me, you’ve ended up in the sort of road-to-nowhere predicament that only a willfully oblivious reliance on Google Maps can achieve.
YOUR MAP IS LYING TO YOUABARRONIANJULY 12, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEAs the cicadas continue to walk and fly, apparently oblivious to the situation, the spores fall off and infect other insects — just what the fungus is trying to provoke.
A FUNGUS COULD TURN SOME CICADAS INTO SEX-CRAZED ‘SALT SHAKERS OF DEATH’MARISA IATIMAY 19, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThey have numbered the neural circuits that push us down into oblivious slumber and pull us back out of it.
SLEEP EVOLVED BEFORE BRAINS. HYDRAS ARE LIVING PROOF.VERONIQUE GREENWOODMAY 18, 2021QUANTA MAGAZINEMany seem to be oblivious of the environmental impact of the waste they generate on a daily basis.
AFRICA’S PLASTICS BANS ARE PITTING THE ENVIRONMENT AGAINST THE ECONOMYKINGSLEY KOBOMAY 16, 2021QUARTZHe thought he’d only been knocked out for a few minutes, oblivious that it was now after midnight.
TEXAS ENABLED THE WORST CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING CATASTROPHE IN RECENT U.S. HISTORYBY PERLA TREVIZO, REN LARSON, LEXI CHURCHILL, PROPUBLICA AND THE TEXAS TRIBUNE; MIKE HIXENBAUGH AND SUZY KHIMM, NBC NEWSAPRIL 29, 2021PROPUBLICAI had a friend who had an agent and I was so oblivious to the obstacles that were before me.
THE MEANING OF LEAH REMINIEUGENE ROBINSONMARCH 30, 2021OZYSome individuals change the world and are beautifully oblivious to the fact.
THE PEOPLE WHO BUILT KAMLOOPS BIKE RANCHOUTSIDE EDITORSMARCH 11, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEWORDS RELATED TO OBLIVIOUS
- absent
- absent-minded
- abstracted
- beguiled
- bewitched
- blissful
- busy
- captivated
- carried away
- caught up in
- charmed
- daydreaming
- deep
- delighted
- dreaming
- ecstatic
- employed
- enamored
- engaged
- engrossed
- enraptured
- enthralled
- entranced
- gripped
- happy
- held
- hung up
- hypnotized
- immersed
- inattentive
- intent
- involved
- lost
- oblivious
- occupied
- overwhelmed
- preoccupied
- rapturous
- ravished
- spellbound
- taken
- transported
- unconscious
- wrapped
- wrapped-up
- 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
- aloof
- blind
- blithe
- callous
- careless
- cold
- cool
- deaf
- detached
- dispassionate
- distant
- easy
- feckless
- forgetful
- hard-hearted
- hardened
- heedless
- impassive
- inattentive
- incurious
- indifferent
- insensible
- insensitive
- insouciant
- lackadaisical
- lukewarm
- negligent
- neutral
- nonchalant
- oblivious
- phlegmatic
- relaxed
- reserved
- self-centered
- serene
- stony
- supine
- unbothered
- uninterested
- uninvolved
- unmoved
- unperturbed
- unruffled
- unsympathetic
- untroubled
- unworried
- apprenticed
- benighted
- birdbrained
- blind to
- cretinous
- dense
- green
- illiterate
- imbecilic
- in the dark
- inexperienced
- innocent
- insensible
- mindless
- misinformed
- moronic
- naive
- nescient
- oblivious
- obtuse
- shallow
- thick
- unconscious
- unconversant
- uncultivated
- uncultured
- uneducated
- unenlightened
- uninformed
- uninitiated
- unintellectual
- unknowledgeable
- unlearned
- unlettered
- unmindful
- unread
- unschooled
- unsuspecting
- untaught
- untrained
- unwitting
- witless
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