Synonyms for oblivious
- adjective
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Adjective
1. Unaware — forgetful
unaware, unmindful, ignorant, forgetful, unconscious, heedless, careless, unwitting, mindless, blind, abstracted, incognizant, incognisant UK, inattentive, negligent
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Definitions
- adj. 1
Forgetful.
He's hopelessly oblivious, always forgetting his appointments.
Related words
- Word family
- obliviousness oblivion
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The absent-minded man is oblivious of ordinary matters, because his thoughts are elsewhere.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- ignorant Not only you but also he is ignorant of the truth.
- unaware Yanni was definitely unaware of what was going on.
- forgetful My grandmother is becoming increasingly forgetful.
- disregardful You were completely disregardful of me when I came back from Brazil.
By length
- 5 letters
- blind1
- 7 letters
- unaware3, lethean
- 8 letters
- ignorant3, careless2, mindless2, heedless
- 9 letters
- negligent3, forgetful3, unwitting3, unmindful
- 10 letters
- abstracted3
- 11 letters
- unconscious3, inattentive4, incognizant, incognisant
- 12 letters
- disregardful
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (unaware3 = 3 syllables).