as in unaware
not informed about or aware of something
the out-of-state motorist claimed to be oblivious of the local speed limit, even though the signs must have been hard to miss
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Recent Examples of oblivious
While his film brings comfort, his characters aren’t exactly oblivious to the world around them.
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Marta Balaga, Variety, 13 May 2025
Photograph by Bettmann / Getty Paul Mantz, who’d remained Earhart’s technical adviser, was at an aviation competition in St. Louis, oblivious to her latest plans.
—Laurie Gwen Shapiro, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
Save for one completely unconvincing arc in Episode 5, Anton isn’t as oblivious as the rest of his friends.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 28 May 2025
Faith and Mauricio stood by, stifling laughter as Darnell snapped their photo, completely oblivious to their true identities.
—Ashley Vega, People.com, 23 May 2025
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Marta Balaga, Variety, 13 May 2025
Photograph by Bettmann / Getty Paul Mantz, who’d remained Earhart’s technical adviser, was at an aviation competition in St. Louis, oblivious to her latest plans.
—Laurie Gwen Shapiro, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
Save for one completely unconvincing arc in Episode 5, Anton isn’t as oblivious as the rest of his friends.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 28 May 2025
Faith and Mauricio stood by, stifling laughter as Darnell snapped their photo, completely oblivious to their true identities.
—Ashley Vega, People.com, 23 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oblivious
Adjective
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The good news about season 3 taking us back in time is that many of those characters are likely to return, unaware of the grisly fates awaiting them.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
4 June 2025
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Many of these students and their families were unaware of their full mathematical potential.—
Julia Brodsky,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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Less prescient was her claim—ignorant in exactly the way of so many white feminists throughout history—that racial oppression would be solved once gender was abolished.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
11 June 2025
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The provision prohibiting states from regulating AI for the next 10 years is unconscionably ignorant and dangerous.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
8 June 2025
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“Oblivious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oblivious. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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