as in unaware
not informed about or aware of something
the out-of-state motorist claimed to be oblivious of the local speed limit, even though the signs must have been hard to miss
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Recent Examples of oblivious
Cardenas is tall and handsome, one of those men who manages to straddle the jock-nerd divide, and whose behavior can be read as either supremely confident or socially oblivious.
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James Vincent, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
Craig, obviously, is oblivious to the whole thing.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2025
The Chiefs spent a full season flirting with danger, as though oblivious to its consequences, as though the results would change even absent substantive improvement, and now those consequences have smacked them in the face.
—Sam McDowell December 15, Kansas City Star, 15 Dec. 2025
This is also not the voice that was oblivious to what the newspapers and the magazines of the time said about her, or the letters in handwriting that meandered like tendrils on a vine.
—Literary Hub, 11 Dec. 2025
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Brewers president of baseball operations Matt Arnold revealed the team is unaware of the status of the players in a statement Saturday.—
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One video shows a young man attempting to put the fire out by hitting it with a cloth, while others record on their phones or continue dancing, seemingly unaware of the imminent danger.—
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On its face, the government's defense appears to be that the individuals behind these statements are ignorant or incompetent, or both.—
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The citizens of Oz are treated as no more than an undifferentiated crowd of extras, an ignorant and finally disposable monolith.—
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“Oblivious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oblivious. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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