Synonyms for oblivious
əˈblɪv i əsobliv·i·ous

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1. oblivious

   As regards mental action, absorbed, abstracted, and preoccupied refer to the cause, absent or absent-minded to the effect. The man absorbed in one thing will appear absent in others. A preoccupied person may seem listless and thoughtless, but the really listless and thoughtless have not mental energy to be preoccupied. The absent-minded man is oblivious of ordinary matters, because his thoughts are elsewhere. One who is preoccupied is intensely busy in thought; one may be absent-minded either through intense concentration or simply through inattention, with fitful and aimless wandering of thought. Compare ABSTRACT.

   Synonyms:
   absent, absent-minded, absorbed, abstracted, heedless, inattentive, indifferent, listless, negligent, preoccupied, thoughtless

   Antonyms:
   alert, attentive, on hand, prompt, ready, thoughtful, wide-awake

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.7 / 11 votes

1. oblivious(p), unmindful(p)adjective

   (followed by `to' or `of') lacking conscious awareness of

   "oblivious of the mounting pressures for political reform"; "oblivious to the risks she ran"; "not unmindful of the heavy responsibility"

   Antonyms:
   aware(p), cognizant, attentive, cognisant

2. forgetful, obliviousadjective

   failing to keep in mind

   "forgetful of her responsibilities"; "oblivious old age"

   Synonyms:
   unmindful, unretentive, mindless, short, oblivious(p), unmindful(p), forgetful

   Antonyms:
   cognisant, attentive, aware(p), cognizant

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1. obliviousadjective

   Synonyms:
   forgetful, mindless, heedless, careless, negligent, neglectful

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. obliviousadjective

   Synonyms:
   unmindful, unconscious, forgetful, heedless, disregardful

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1. List of paraphrases for "oblivious":

   unconscious, insensitive, indifferent

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1. Samantha Bees:

   Ivanka Trump, who works at the White House senior adviser, chose to post the second most oblivious tweet we've seen this week, you know, Ivanka Trump, White House senior adviser's a beautiful photo of you and your child, but let me just say, one mother to another, do something about your dad's immigration practices, you feckless c *** !

2. Bill Gross:

   Banks, insurance companies, pension funds and Mom and Pop on Main Street are stripped of their ability to pay for future debts and retirement benefits, central banks seem oblivious to this dark side of low interest rates. If maintained for too long, the real economy itself is affected as expected income fails to materialize and investment spending stagnates.

3. Karl Brauer:

   Most consumers are not hung up on, if not completely oblivious to, where the car is made, at the end of the day if it is a Buick-badged vehicle that we really like as a domestic buyer, we're going to buy it.

4. Bill Maher:

   I keep saying this to the Democratic Party. The reason why you're so toxic is because you've become the party of no common sense. And people see this on their newsfeeds, they see things on their phone or on their Facebook page, people pass things around and it's a constant drip, drip, drip of ‘ Oh, these people are nuts' in a way -- they're not oblivious to the fact that Trump is nuts. When he ran, one of his big selling points was ‘ You’ve got no choice.' He was saying, ‘ Yes, I know I ’m nuts. You know I'm nuts. But they're nuts in a very different way that's closer to home to you.'.

5. James Cameron:

   Directors are historically pretty oblivious to the interpersonal things on their set, being so focused on what they’re doing creatively, the fact that this was happening under our noses and we did n’t know about it...