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Definitions: Oblivious |
ObliviousAdjective1. (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". 2. Failing to keep in mind; "forgetful of her responsibilities"; "oblivious old age". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "oblivious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Etymology: Oblivious \Ob*liv"i*ous\, adjective. [Latin expression obliviosus: compare to French oblivieux.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: ObliviousSynonyms: forgetful (adj), oblivious(p) (adj), unmindful(p) (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Oblivion | Forgetful, oblivious, mindless, Lethean; insensible; to the past; heedless. |
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Crosswords: Oblivious |
| English words defined with "oblivious": dishonest ♦ fearless ♦ Rip van Winkle ♦ unafraid, unscrupulous. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "oblivious": directory service. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Oblivious (2001) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Privy near Capitol, Washington, D.C. This outbuilding leaks and drains on land about it. Negro inhabitants appear oblivious to it all. No door to this privy, but a sheet of canvas which is seldom used.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Oblivious" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.61% of the time. "Oblivious" is used about 361 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.61% | 356 | 15,102 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.39% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 361 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "oblivious": be oblivious of ♦ be oblivious of a thing ♦ be oblivious to ♦ oblivious of ♦ oblivious to. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
the oblivious | 24 |
oblivious transfer | 8 |
oblivious skirt up | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "oblivious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i pavëmendshëm (absentminded, careless, heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, inconsiderate, incurious, regardless, unattending), i harruar (forgetful, omitted), harraq (forgetful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كثير النسيان (forgetful), ناس (folk, wave), غير واعي, غافل (asleep, heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, incautious, incurious, insensible, regardless, thriftless, unmindful, unthinking, unwary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | разсеян (absent, absent minded, diffuse, disseminated, distrait, forgetful, moony, preoccupied, rare, scatter-brained, stray, unmindful, vacant, wandering, wool gathering), несъзнаващ (insensible, unconscious, unknowing, unwitting), забравил, причиняващ забрава. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 忘却 (Oblivion, raze, razed, razing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zapomenutý (forgotten, out of mind, overblown), zapomínající, nevšímavý (insensitive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فراموشکار (Slack), بی توجه (Inattentive, Unconsidered, Unresponsive, Unwitting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | muistamaton (forgetful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | oublieux. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | vergesslich (forgetful, forgetfully, obliviously), nicht gewahr (unaware), nicht bewusst (unaware), ahnungslos (clueless, cluelessly, obliviously, unaware, unsuspecting, unwitting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | επιλήσμων (forgetful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מתעלם (elusive, evasive, unconcerned), שכחן (forgetful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | feledékeny (forgetful, lightheaded, unmindful), megfeledkező (unmindful), hanyag (derelict, heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, inobservant, inofficious, insouciant, lax, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, perfunctory, remiss, slipshod, sloppy, slow, slubberer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pelupa (absent-minded). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | inconsapevole (incognizant, inconscious, insensible, unaware, unconscious), immemore (forgetful, unmindful), ignaro (ignorant, unaware), dimentico (forget, forgetful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 忘れがち (forgetful, negligent, oblivious of), 忘れ勝ち (forgetful, negligent, oblivious of). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | わすれがち (forgetful, negligent, oblivious of). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 잊기 쉬운. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | neuhastagh (inadvertent, inattentive, regardless, undiscerning), neugheillagh (regardless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | obliviousay olvido, que provoca esquecimento, esquecido (forgetful, unmindful), absorto (absent minded, absorbed, abstracted, deep, ecstatic, lost). (various references) care provoacã uitarea. (various references) забывчивый (forgetful, unmindful), дающий забвение. (various references) zaboravan (forgetful), nesvestan (aware: not aware, conscienceless, unaware, unconscious, unwitting). (various references) inconsciente de (mindless), de poca memoria. (various references) glömsk (absent minded, forgetful, unmindful). (various references) ซึ่งไม่ตระหนักถึง. (various references) unutkan (amnesiac, forgetful, unmindful), ilgisiz (aloof, apathetic, apathetical, careless, complacent, disinterested, does not apply, impertinent, incurious, indifferent, insensible, insouciant, irrelevant, listless, lukewarm, nonchalant, phlegmatic, phlegmatical, standoffish, superior, unallied, unconcerned, unconnected, uninterested, unobliging, unrelated), ihmalkâr (careless, derelict, forgetful, inattentive, neglectful, negligent), ihmalci (careless, derelict, forgetful, inattentive, neglectful, negligent, remiss, slack, unheedful), habersiz (ignorant, in the dark, insensible, insensible of, not knowing, unannounced, unaware, unbeknown, unbeknownst, unconscious, uninformed, unknowing, unwitting, without notice). (various references) що надає забуття, неуважний (absent, absentminded, abstracted, careless, distrait, erratic, faraway, forgetful, inadvertent, inattentive, inconsiderate, incurious, inobservant, mused, neglectful, negligent, oscitant, outward, unmindful, vague), забудькуватий (forgetful). (various references) lâng quên, không nhớ tới. (various references) ebargofus, anghofus (forgetful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | obliviosus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "oblivious": obliviously, obliviousness, obliviousnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Oblivious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: obivious, oblibious, oblivoius, oblivous, obvivious, Orbivirus. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "oblivious" (pronounced ubli"vēus) |
| 5 | -i" v ē u s | lascivious. |
| 4 | -v ē u s | devious, envious, impervious, obvious, previous. |
| 3 | -ē u s | acrimonious, alias, amphibious, aqueous, bilious, coleus, commodious, contemporaneous, copious, courteous, curious, deleterious, delirious, denarius, dubious, erroneous, extraneous, fastidious, felonious, furious, gaseous, glorious, gregarious, harmonious, hideous, hilarious, homogeneous, igneous, ignominious, illustrious, imperious, industrious, inglorious, injurious, insidious, instantaneous, invidious, laborious, lugubrious, luxurious, melodious, meritorious, miscellaneous, mysterious, nefarious, notorious, nucleus, obsequious, odious, pancreas, penurious, percutaneous, precarious, punctilious, radius, sanctimonious, Sartorius, serious, simultaneous, spontaneous, spurious, studious, supercilious, tedious, unceremonious, various, vicarious, victorious, vitreous. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-i-i-l-o-o-s-u-v" | |
-2 letters: bilious, obvious. | |
-3 letters: obolus, ovibos. | |
-4 letters: boils, bolos, bolus, lobos, louis, oboli, obols, olios, ovoli, viols. | |
-5 letters: bios, boil, bolo, boos, ibis, libs, lobo, lobs, loos, luvs, obis, obol, oils, olio, silo, slob, slub, soil, soli, solo, soul, viol. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-i-i-l-o-o-s-u-v" | |
+2 letters: obliviously. | |
+4 letters: obliviousness. | |
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