Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Lacking conscious awareness; unmindful.
- adjective Archaic Lacking all memory; forgetful.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Forgetful; disposed to forget.
- Causing forgetfulness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Promoting oblivion; causing forgetfulness.
- adjective Evincing oblivion; forgetful.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Lacking
awareness ;unmindful . - adjective Failing to
remember ;forgetful .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (followed by `to' or `of') lacking conscious awareness of
- adjective failing to keep in mind
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
Douglas LaBier: When Psychotherapists Fail to Help: Here's Why Douglas LaBier 2010
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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.
Douglas LaBier: When Psychotherapists Fail to Help: Here's Why Douglas LaBier 2010
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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.
Douglas LaBier: When Psychotherapists Fail to Help: Here's Why Douglas LaBier 2010
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The fact that an offender may remain oblivious to that forgiveness is absolutely beside the point.
Scott Cairns: The Christian and the Community: A Relationship in God's Image Scott Cairns 2010
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“May you ever have naked women to toss tiny pickels an coo in oblivious delight at your witty urbane opener of foreign post”.
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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.
Douglas LaBier: When Psychotherapists Fail to Help: Here's Why Douglas LaBier 2010
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Still, many of us remain oblivious to the calamity.
Michealene Cristini Risley: Let's Face It: We've Hit the Iceberg Michealene Cristini Risley 2010
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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 2009
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When did Americans become so complacent that we remain oblivious to our severely limited number of lifeboats?
Michealene Cristini Risley: Let's Face It: We've Hit the Iceberg Michealene Cristini Risley 2010
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The fact that an offender may remain oblivious to that forgiveness is absolutely beside the point.
Scott Cairns: The Christian and the Community: A Relationship in God's Image Scott Cairns 2010
bilby commented on the word oblivious
A lesson.
April 25, 2009