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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
oblivious
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
seemingly unaware/oblivious (=seeming not to notice something)
▪ She was seemingly unaware of all the activity around her.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
apparently
▪ He was reading a newspaper, apparently oblivious to the contribution he was making to the traffic chaos.
▪ Jean Vilbrun Guillaume Sam sat at his desk, head in hands, apparently oblivious to the events outside.
▪ He was lighting another cigarette, apparently oblivious of the elements.
so
▪ How could a self-styled poet be so oblivious to taste?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ In the sitcom she plays a New York executive who's totally oblivious to the feelings of others.
▪ The walkers in front crossed the ledge easily, seemingly oblivious to the fact that there was a 3000 foot drop on either side.
▪ They soon fell asleep, oblivious of the danger.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For here lay no more than a piece of meat, oblivious, inanimate, an object to be examined without reverence.
▪ He ate on, oblivious to the storms he was stirring into the air around him.
▪ He worked as a man obsessed, oblivious to family and friends, shunning holidays, forgetting anniversaries.
▪ It is extraordinary how oblivious the Labour party remains to the extraordinarily damaging consequences of its proposals.
▪ Luckily, Theresa was oblivious to the offering.
▪ Most constant complainers are oblivious to their annoying habit, Vilas said.
▪ Senses rioted, coherent thought fled, and for mindless seconds they were oblivious to the world about them.
▪ She seemed quite oblivious to the route I was taking as she chatted on about her holiday plans for Ibiza.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Oblivious

Oblivious \Ob*liv"i*ous\, a. [L. obliviosus: cf. F. oblivieux.]

  1. Promoting oblivion; causing forgetfulness. ``The oblivious pool.''
    --Milton.

    She lay in deep, oblivious slumber.
    --Longfellow.

  2. Evincing oblivion; forgetful.

    Through are both weak in body and oblivious.
    --Latimer. [1913 Webster] -- Obliv"i*ous*ly, adv. -- Ob*liv"i*ous*ness, n.
    --Foxe.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
oblivious

mid-15c., from Latin obliviosus "forgetful, that easily forgets; producing forgetfulness," from oblivion (see oblivion). Meaning "unaware, unconscious (of something)" is from 1862, formerly regarded as erroneous, this is now the general meaning and the word has lost its original sense of "no longer aware or mindful." Properly should be used with to, not of. Related: Obliviously; obliviousness.

Wiktionary
oblivious

a. 1 (usually followed by ''to'' or ''of'') Lacking awareness; unmindful; unaware, unconscious of. 2 Failing to remember; forgetful.

WordNet
oblivious
  1. adj. (followed by `to' or `of') lacking conscious awareness of; "oblivious of the mounting pressures for political reform"; "oblivious to the risks she ran"; "not unmindful of the heavy responsibility" [syn: oblivious(p), unmindful(p)]

  2. failing to keep in mind; "forgetful of her responsibilities"; "oblivious old age" [syn: forgetful]

Wikipedia
Oblivious (U.S. game show)

Oblivious (rendered on screen as Obliviou$) is a hidden camera comedy game show based on the British format by Tiger Aspect Productions and Mast Media of the same name.

Oblivious (film)

Oblivious is a 2001 short film written and directed by Ozgur Uyanik. It won the Canal+ Prize for Best European Short Film at the Brussels European Film Festival, 2001.

Oblivious (song)

Oblivious is the first single by the Japanese girl group Kalafina, with the two original members Wakana Ootaki and Keiko Kubota. All three tracks are used as theme songs in the first three Kara no Kyoukai movies.

Oblivious (Aztec Camera song)

"Oblivious" is the fourth single by Scottish new wave band Aztec Camera. It was released as the second single from their 1983 studio album High Land, Hard Rain. The song managed a moderate charting of No. 47 on the UK Singles Chart, but a re-release of the song later that same year proved even more successful, entering the top twenty and peaking at No. 18.

Oblivious

Oblivious was a hidden camera comedy game show that aired on ITV from 14 July 2001 to 4 March 2003. It was presented by Davina McCall.

Usage examples of "oblivious".

As always, the streets of Koth were busy with commerce, but were almost oblivious to the return of the king.

Those destitute of this spirit would never awake from the oblivious sleep of death, unless as he maintained will actually be the case with a large part of the dead they are arbitrarily immortalized by the pleasure of God, in order to suffer eternal misery in hell!

She turned a wary gaze on Clemantine, but all she encountered there was the oblivious expression of someone under heavy atrial link.

She held back a grin as Randolph smiled at Benedict, completely oblivious of the daggers being aimed his way.

He was about to go after a Beater when the wizard who had dropped his bat before maneuvered his broom so that he could use the twigs to hit a Bludger at Neil, who was oblivious.

Gaius Marius, oblivious to the fact that his Chian tapestry drape had flopped itself all the wrong way.

Oblivious to the shotgun drizzle, incandescent with surprise and wonder, she circumambulated the outlandish turkeymobile, hand in hand with its creator.

Simon approved, touching the paintwork of the dado rail, thankfully oblivious to the tension which was gripping her as she walked into the room.

Bragg leaned into his seat, picturing the defaulters stumbling into the snow and mud, oblivious to their fate.

Most people are oblivious to the onset of dehydration, due in part to the lack of thirst.

Soon the ditsy reporter was standing upright, arms outstretched, hands cupping the two oblivious Coppers.

So The Shadow picked his course on foot, almost oblivious to the faint whine of police sirens that were converging back toward the area that Durand and the robot had already left.

Nisa Greet, a young astronavigator on her first Cosmic expedition, held her breath as she watched Erg Noor in silence, and the commander himself seemed oblivious of everything but his work.

Eddie Fogle continued to eat his chocolate-covered peanuts and seemed oblivious to the fact that Miki was damn good and ready to blow his head off.

Sukie, who had been oblivious to his hidden life, the truth: that Andy Balachek had climbed through the west-side garderobe into the study.