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unobserving

unobserving adjective: failing to observe something; unobservant.

Adjective

unobserving (comparative more unobserving, superlative most unobserving)

  1. Failing to observe something; unobservant.
    • It was full of heartbreak, and Katy was too unobserving to notice how round and steady and commercial the penmanship was, and how large and fine were the flourishes.1888, Edward Eggleston, The Mystery of Metropolisville
    • In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC

Forms of unobserving

comparativemore unobserving
superlativemost unobserving

Origin of unobserving

From un- + observing.

Words formed from unobserving

Questions about unobserving

What does unobserving mean?
Unobserving means failing to observe something; unobservant.
What part of speech is unobserving?
Unobserving is an adjective.

Words near unobserving in the dictionary

  1. unobservant
  2. unobservantly
  3. unobservantness
  4. unobserved
  5. unobservedly
  6. unobserving
  7. unobservingly
  8. unobsessed
  9. unobsessive
  10. unobsessively
  11. unobsolete

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