Meanings
comparative more oblivious · superlative most oblivious
Synonyms & antonyms
adjective(followed by ‘to’ or ‘of’) lacking conscious awareness of
adjectivefailing to keep in mind
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinoblīviōsus“forgetful, oblivious”
- Middle Englishoblivious
- Englishoblivious
From Middle English oblivious, from Latin oblīviōsus (“forgetful, oblivious”), formed from oblīvium (“forgetfulness, oblivion”) + -ōsus (“full of, overly, prone to”), from oblīvīscor (“to forget”).
More words from Middle English, Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian забравящ
- забравящ (zabravjašt)failing to remember
Catalan inconscient, ignorant
- inconscientunaware
- ignorantunaware
- oblidósfailing to remember
- oblidadísfailing to remember
Chinese Mandarin 不自覺 /不自觉, 健忘
- 不自覺 /不自觉 (bùzìjué)unaware
- 健忘 (jiànwàng)failing to remember
Czech nevšímavý, nevědomý
- nevšímavýunaware
- nevědomýunaware
- nesoustředěnýunaware
- neuvědomující sifailing to remember
Danish uvidende
- uvidendeunaware
Dutch onoplettend, vergeetachtig
- onoplettendunaware
- vergeetachtigfailing to remember
Esperanto nekonscia, forgesema
- nekonsciaunaware
- forgesemafailing to remember
Finnish tietämätön, välinpitämätön
- tietämätönunaware
- välinpitämätönunaware
- unohtavainenfailing to remember
- muistamatonfailing to remember
French ignorant, inconscient
- ignorantunaware
- inconscientunaware
- distraitfailing to remember
- oublieuxfailing to remember
German selbstvergessen, unaufmerksam
- selbstvergessenunaware
- unaufmerksamunaware
- nicht bewusstunaware
- unbedachtunaware
- unbedarftunaware
- vergesslichfailing to remember
Italian inconsapevole, ignaro
- inconsapevoleunaware
- ignarounaware
- smemoratofailing to remember
Japanese 無自覚
- 無自覚 (mujikaku)unaware
Latin obliviosus, obliviosus
- obliviosusunaware
- obliviosusfailing to remember
Māori mākūare
- mākūareunaware
Polish nieświadomy, zapominalski
- nieświadomyunaware
- zapominalskifailing to remember
Portuguese inconsciente, sem noção
- inconscienteunaware
- sem noçãounaware
- esquecediçofailing to remember
- esquecidiçofailing to remember
Russian забывчивый
- забывчивый (zabyvčivyj)failing to remember
Spanish inconsciente, desprevenido
- inconscienteunaware
- desprevenidounaware
- ajenounaware
- desconocedorunaware
- no darse cuentaunaware
- inenteradounaware
- olvidadizofailing to remember
Swedish ovetande, glömsk
- ovetandeunaware
- glömskfailing to remember
Turkish dikkatsiz, habersiz
- dikkatsizunaware
- habersizunaware
- ilgisizunaware
- ihmâlciunaware
- ihmâlkârunaware
- lakayıtunaware
- unutarakfailing to remember
- unutkanfailing to remember
Ukrainian несвідо́мий, забу́дькуватий
- несвідо́мий (nesvidómyj)unaware
- забу́дькуватий (zabúdʹkuvatyj)failing to remember
Vietnamese tỉnh bơ, hay quên
- tỉnh bơunaware
- hay quênfailing to remember
- lãng quênfailing to remember
Cite this entry
oblivious. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/oblivious
“oblivious.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/oblivious. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “oblivious,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/oblivious.
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