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Definition: Unobservant |
UnobservantAdjective1. Not consciously observing; "looked through him with blank unseeing eyes". 2. Not paying attention. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unobservant" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: UnobservantSynonyms: inattentive (adj), unseeing (adj), unvigilant (adj), unwatchful (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inattention | Adjective: inattentive; unobservant, unmindful, heedless, unthinking, unheeding, undiscerning; inadvertent; mindless, regardless, respectless, listless; (indifferent); blind, deaf; bird-witted; hand over head; cursory, percursory; giddy-brained, scatter-brained, hare-brained; unreflective, unreflecting, ecervele; offhand; dizzy, muzzy, brainsick; giddy, giddy as a goose; wild, harum-scarum, rantipole, highflying; heedless, careless; (neglectful). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Unobservant |
| English words defined with "unobservant": To lay asleep. (references) |
| "Unobservant" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "Unobservant" is used about 5 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) | 60% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 40% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "unobservant": be unobservant ♦ be unobservant of ♦ how unobservant of me. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "unobservant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | jovëzhgues. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | който не спазва, ненаблюдателен (blind, sleepy, unseeing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unaufmerksam (distracted, inattentive, inattentively, inconsiderate, inconsiderately, unalert, unperceptive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | figyelmetlen (distrait, forgetful, heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, mindless, negligent, perceptive, reckless, regardless, thoughtless, unmindful, unperceptive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | disattento (careless, heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, inobservant, listless, unruly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | observantunay que não observa, pouco observador, desatento (carefree, careless, deaf, distrait, harebrained, inattentive, inobservant, light-minded, listless, mindless, regardless, scatterbrained). (various references) невнимательный (careless, distrait, heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, incurious, inobservant, neglectful, remiss, scatter-brained, unattending, unattentive, unheeding, unmindful). (various references) koji se ne pridržava (inobservant, nonobservant), koji ne opaža (unperceptive). (various references) inobservante (inobservant, non observant). (various references) dikkatsiz (careless, freewheeling, heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, incurious, lax, listless, mindless, regardless, remiss, slipshod, unaware, unheedful, unheeding, unregardful, unseeing, unwary), dikkat çekmeyen. (various references) неспостережливий (bat-eyed, inobservant, unseeing). (various references) không hay quan sát. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-n-n-o-r-s-t-u-v" | |
-2 letters: bevatrons, butanones, observant, outbraves. | |
-3 letters: baronets, baronnes, bevatron, burstone, butanone, neutrons, outbrave, outearns, outraves, ravenous, resonant, saboteur, subovate, tonneaus, unornate, unreason, urbanest, vaunters. | |
-4 letters: arbutes, arenous, atoners, banners, bannets, banters, baronet, baronne, boaster, boaters, bonnets, boranes, borates, bournes, bravest, bravoes, brunets, bunters, burnets, bursate, burtons, butanes, natrons, natures, nervous, neurons, neuston, neutron, nonarts. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-n-n-o-r-s-t-u-v" | |
+2 letters: subventionary. | |
+3 letters: antisubversion. | |
+4 letters: antisubversions. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 6F 62 73 65 72 76 61 6E 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. --- -... ... . .-. ...- .- -. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01101111 01100010 01110011 01100101 01110010 01110110 01100001 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n o b s e r v a n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 006F 0062 0073 0065 0072 0076 0061 006E 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5580816885718488678086 |
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