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1. oblivious
adjective. ['əˈblɪviːəs'] (followed by to' or
of') lacking conscious awareness of.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Etymology
- obliviosus (Latin)
Rhymes with Oblivious
- lascivious
How do you pronounce oblivious?
Pronounce oblivious as əˈblɪviəs.
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Sentences with oblivious
1. Adjective
It is definitely possible someone can want a person, and be oblivious to it.
Quotes about oblivious
1. If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.
- Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
2. The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.
- Ian McEwan, Atonement
3. I am—yet what I am none cares or knows; My friends forsake me like a memory lost: I am the self-consumer of my woes— They rise and vanish in oblivious host, Like shadows in love’s frenzied stifled throes And yet I am, and live—like vapours tossed
- John Clare, "I Am": The Selected Poetry of John Clare