oblivious
adjectiveattested in dialogue
- Australia//əˈblɪviəs//
Lacking awareness; unmindful; unaware, unconscious of.
adjective
- 1
Lacking awareness; unmindful; unaware, unconscious of.
Your grandmother is completely oblivious to her surroundings.
- 2
datedForgetful.
He's hopelessly oblivious, always forgetting his appointments.
Etymology
From Middle English oblivious, from Latin oblīviōsus (“forgetful, oblivious”), formed from oblīvium (“forgetfulness, oblivion”) + -ōsus (“full of, overly, prone to”), from oblīvīscor (“to forget”).
Forms
- comparative
- more oblivious
- superlative
- most oblivious
oblige · To constrain someone by force or by social, moral or legal…obliged · Under an obligation to do something.oblivion · The state of forgetting completely, of being oblivious,…
oblivious · Lacking awareness; unmindful; unaware, unconscious of.
obnoxious · Extremely offensive or unpleasant; very annoying,…obscene · Offensive to standards of decency or morality.obscure · Dark, faint or indistinct.