Meaning of OBLIVIOUS
| Pronunciation: | | u'bliveeus
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| | Definition: | | [adj] failing to keep in mind; "forgetful of her responsibilities"; "oblivious old age" |
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| | Synonyms: | | forgetful, inattentive |
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| | Definition: | | \Ob*liv"i*ous\, a. [L. obliviosus: cf.F. oblivieux.]
1. Promoting oblivion; causing forgetfulness. ``The oblivious
pool.'' --Milton.
She lay in deep, oblivious slumber. --Longfellow.
2. Evincing oblivion; forgetful.
Through are both weak in body and oblivious.
--Latimer.
-- {Obliv"i*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Ob*liv"i*ous*ness}, n.
--Foxe.
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| | Related Terms: | | absent, absentminded, absent-minded, absorbed, abstracted, airy, amnestic, asleep, bemused, blank, blankminded, blind, blind to, blocked, calm, careless, castle-building, casual, cataleptic, catatonic, cold, comatose, converted, cursory, daydreaming, daydreamy, dead, dead asleep, dead to, deaf, deaf to, deep asleep, degage, detached, disregardant, disregardful, distant, doped, dormant, dreaming, dreamy, drowsing, drugged, easygoing, ecstatic, elsewhere, empty, empty-headed, engrossed, faraway, fast asleep, fatuous, flaked-out, flippant, forgetful, forgetting, free and easy, half-awake, half-conscious, heedless, in a reverie, in the clouds, inane, inclined to forget, incogitant, incognizant, inconsiderate, indifferent, insensible, insensitive, insouciant, lazy, Lethean, lost, lost in thought, lost to, meditative, mooning, moonraking, museful, musing, napping, narcotized, nirvanic, nodding, offhand, out, out cold, out of it, passive, pensive, perfunctory, pipe-dreaming, preoccupied, quietistic, rapt, reckless, regardless, relaxed, removed, repressed, respectless, semiconscious, senseless, sleeping, slumbering, somewhere else, sound asleep, spaced out, stargazing, stoned, strung out, suppressed, tactless, taken up, thoughtfree, thoughtless, tranquil, transported, unacquainted, unaware, unconcerned, unconscious, undiplomatic, unfamiliar, unfeeling, unheedful, unheeding, unideaed, uninformed, uninstructed, unintellectual, unknowing, unmindful, unoccupied, unprepared, unready, unreasoning, unsolicitous, untactful, unthinking, unwitting, vacant, vacuous, woolgathering, wrapped in thought, zonked, zonked out |
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