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Oblivious   /əblˈɪviəs/   Listen
adjective
Oblivious  adj.  
1.
Promoting oblivion; causing forgetfulness. "The oblivious pool." "She lay in deep, oblivious slumber."
2.
Evincing oblivion; forgetful. "Through are both weak in body and oblivious."





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"Oblivious" Quotes from Famous Books



... days could be at Brandon. It was dark and gloomy that afternoon when we got to looking at the old family silver, and even raining dismally by the time we were carefully unfolding the faded court gown; but on we went from treasure to treasure oblivious of the weather. ...
— Virginia: The Old Dominion • Frank W. Hutchins and Cortelle Hutchins
... a match at marbles or pegtop, looking on with a face of unutterable interest, and hardly breathing at the critical times! How often, at hare and hounds, have I seen him mounted on a little knoll, cheering the whole field on to action, and waving his hat above his grey head, oblivious of King Charles the Martyr's head, and all belonging to it! How many a summer hour have I known to be but blissful minutes to him in the cricket-field! How many winter days have I seen him, standing blue-nosed, in the snow and east wind, looking at the boys going down ...
— David Copperfield • Charles Dickens
... overwhelming grief. By constant practice the student may secure the final common path for such impressions as are derived from the stimuli offered by the subject of his study, and so he will be oblivious of his surroundings. Concentration is but another name for a final common path secured by the repetition and summation of ...
— The Origin and Nature of Emotions • George W. Crile
... The fateful crossness of events pursues us through the world. The only time when he should have been absent-minded and oblivious, his memory served him well. At the next station he got out for his umbrella, and returned after quite a long interval, not looking exactly triumphant; rather flushed and uncomfortable; but in proud possession ...
— The Argosy - Vol. 51, No. 6, June, 1891 • Various
... made for the river, or "toted" up the hill if the order was to take to the cave. And then the irrepressible propensity of the negro had cropped out again. There lay Black Jim peacefully snoring in the sunshine, oblivious of all danger. ...
— Sunset Pass - or Running the Gauntlet Through Apache Land • Charles King


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