Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Forgetful; disposed to forget.
- Causing forgetfulness.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Promoting oblivion; causing forgetfulness.
- adj. Evincing oblivion; forgetful.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (followed by `to' or `of') lacking conscious awareness of
- adj. failing to keep in mind
Etymologies
- From Latin obliviosus ("forgetful, oblivious") (Wiktionary)
Examples
“We believe he, either, is turning his Nelson's eye to the scientific reports, or, is plain oblivious of Peter Bergen's cogent and coherent articulation of the demerits of EITs as image destroyers for the US.”
Cheney wrong on interrogation inquiry facts, Obama official says
“Still, many of us remain oblivious to the calamity.”
The Huffington Post: Michealene Cristini Risley: Let's Face It: We've Hit the Iceberg
“When did Americans become so complacent that we remain oblivious to our severely limited number of lifeboats?”
The Huffington Post: Michealene Cristini Risley: Let's Face It: We've Hit the Iceberg
““May you ever have naked women to toss tiny pickels an coo in oblivious delight at your witty urbane opener of foreign post”.”
“The fact that an offender may remain oblivious to that forgiveness is absolutely beside the point.”
The Huffington Post: Scott Cairns: The Christian and the Community: A Relationship in God's Image
“Then, it becomes like a Shakespearian play where the motives of the characters are visible to members of the audience, but the characters themselves remain oblivious to their unconscious motives that propel them along.”
The Huffington Post: Douglas LaBier: When Psychotherapists Fail to Help: Here's Why
“God almighty, how anyway can be that willfully oblivious is beyond my ability to comprehend.”
“As long as he is limited to the "tunnel vision" of an involved character, he must remain oblivious to the proximity of the flowing water:”
“My friend here, he gestures to the kid beside him who grins behind sunglasses oblivious, is a Bedouin.”
“While urging support to one group and opposition to another, neoconservative pundits remain oblivious to the connection of the various ideological groups to the larger population in Muslim societies and to one another.”
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
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abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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(1st_wk_150)-Dec_5_2012
voracious, indiscriminate, eminent, steeped, replete, abound, technology, prognosticate, automaton, matron, paradox, realm and 297 more...
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ob-
to; toward; before; opposed to; against; upon; over
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gre2
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Shadowkeir's list
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SAT_RW
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the first list
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maygra
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Need to Know!
elicit, educe, refute, cogency, churlish, martinet, veritable, polyglot, dissemble, histrionics, prevarication, verbiage and 166 more...
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my GRE words
pedant, wizened, histrionic, logorrhea, frenetic, approbation, quibble, knell, acclivity, droog, prevarication, aplomb and 182 more...
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hedges's Words
wii, crepuscule, adumbrate, concatenation, sufi, qawwali, furry, riot, mellifluous, conspiracy, etymology, tea cozy and 369 more...
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imbue, verge on, nonchalant, deliberate, timorous, futile, provisional, dissect, checked, tinged, alluring, visionary and 1046 more...
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schadenfreude, sordid, promulgate, erratic, erroneous, amalgamate, sesquipedalian, incongruous, psychosis, etymology, simulacrum, serendipity and 988 more...
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