Thinking and knowing

Synonyms for oblivious

Synonyms for oblivious: forgetful and unmindful. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.

2 synonyms · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 2 senses · adjective

The 2 synonyms for oblivious

forgetfuladjective, in the sense "failing to keep in mind"
unmindfuladjective, in the sense "lacking conscious awareness of"

Each of these belongs to a different sense of oblivious, which is why the meaning beside them changes down the list.

Sense 1 of 2adjectiveTier 3, RidgelineThinking and knowing

failing to keep in mind

Oblivious old age.

The sentence the game shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

forgetful

Same sentence, swapped: Forgetful old age.

Close but different

Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.

napping
dormant
faraway

Sense 2 of 2adjectiveTier 5, SummitThinking and knowing

lacking conscious awareness of

Oblivious to the risks she ran.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

unmindful

Same sentence, swapped: Unmindful to the risks she ran.

Close but different

Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.

dreamy
dormant
faraway

Where oblivious turns up in the game

oblivious is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play oblivious

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so oblivious reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Nothing on it is written while the page is built.

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