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oblivious

/əˈblɪviəs/

oblivious adjective: lacking awareness; unmindful; unaware, unconscious of.

Adjective

oblivious (comparative more oblivious, superlative most oblivious)

  1. (usually) Lacking awareness; unmindful; unaware, unconscious of.
    • Your grandmother is completely oblivious to her surroundings.
  2. (dated, usually, with-of, never with to) Forgetful.
    • He's hopelessly oblivious, always forgetting his appointments.

oblivious meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

oblivious in Tamil

மறதி

oblivious in Urdu

بھلکڑ, غافل

oblivious in Bengali

সচেতনতার অভাব, অসচেতন, অনবহিত, ভুলো

oblivious in Malayalam

മറവിയുളള, ഓർമ്മക്കേടുണ്ടാക്കുന്ന, വിസ്മൃതിയുളള, ഓർമ്മിക്കാത്ത
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oblivious in Kannada
ಅರಿಯದೆ, ತಿಳಿಯದೆ, ಗೊತ್ತಿಲ್ಲದೆ, ಮರೆತುಬಿಡುವ
oblivious in Vietnamese
tỉnh bơ, hay quên, lãng quên

Examples of oblivious in a sentence

  • The playboy seemed oblivious to his withering fortune as he continued in his decadent lifestyle.
  • On came the mundunugu, standing in the saddle and chopping down at the apparently oblivious man.
  • OBLIVIOUS to his sterilisation, Judas the raccoon dog treks through Sweden’s countryside in search of a mate.

All 25 example sentences with oblivious

Forms of oblivious

comparativemore oblivious
superlativemost oblivious

Origin of oblivious

From Middle English oblivious, from Latin oblīviōsus (“forgetful, oblivious”), formed from oblīvium (“forgetfulness, oblivion”) + -ōsus (“full of, overly, prone to”), from oblīvīscor (“to forget”).

Words formed from oblivious

Phrases with oblivious

Questions about oblivious

What does oblivious mean?
Oblivious means lacking awareness; unmindful; unaware, unconscious of.
What is oblivious in Tamil?
Oblivious in Tamil is மறதி. See Oblivious meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is oblivious?
Oblivious is an adjective.
How do you pronounce oblivious?
Oblivious is pronounced /əˈblɪviəs/ (UK).

Words near oblivious in the dictionary

  1. oblivionizes
  2. oblivionizing
  3. oblivions
  4. obliviot
  5. obliviots
  6. oblivious
  7. oblivious transfer
  8. oblivious transfers
  9. obliviously
  10. obliviousness
  11. obliviousnesses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oblivious (page history and authors); oblivious (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); oblivious (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); oblivious (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); oblivious (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); oblivious (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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