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单词 unobservant
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Definition of unobservant in English:

unobservant

adjective ʌnəbˈzəːv(ə)ntˌənəbˈzərvənt
  • Not observant.

    she can be pretty unobservant
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Fortunately he was very unobservant so I could keep flicking my eyes away from my book to see which page he was on, and as we passed through Harold Wood, I saw that he was reading my column.
    • Twice when I have been crossing with my child I have nearly been knocked down by speeding unobservant drivers - it's not a very nice encounter.
    • Blogger have recently added a new feature (well it's new to me, but I'm fairly unobservant, so it's probably been around for months) allowing you to create your own little profile page.
    • You can read extremely edited highlights of the following interview in the latest edition of Web User magazine, out today (only 99p from all good newsagents, and free from all unobservant newsagents).
    • You'd have to be very unobservant not to have noticed that there are an awful lot of bloggers with an avowedly (and sometimes aggressively) libertarian political philosophy.
    • If she loved to talk, Mercedes was not unobservant, especially when she was observing these two.
    • He would have then given me my false 10p back, but I would have been safe in the knowledge that eventually I would be able to pass it on, to someone as stupid and unobservant as me.
    • The jokes in Daniel Goldfarb's affable comedy about an unlikely friendship between observant and unobservant Jews are as New York - specific as the cityscape set.
    • Even after the trauma of the attacks on New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, this extraordinarily unobservant system creaked on.
    • It would only take an unobservant secretary or a slip of the pen and suddenly Selby's first team flanker Duncan Phillips is dropped to the thirds, while his brother Owen is handed a place in Yorkshire One side.
    • I said I hadn't noticed it, to which it replied, ‘That's because you are somewhat unobservant and also rather repressed.’
    • It sounded like they were in the middle of a song, though I hadn't remembered the music coming in, though maybe I was just being unobservant, or something.
    • To tell you the truth, I've never really been aware of them but, being the unobservant sort, I'm unreliable in such things.
    • As it happens, we find we already have many Jews, many atheists and agnostics, and many relatively unobservant Christians and Buddhists.
    • Akra Jr has started to use two new words in their correct context today (actually, he may have been using them before but has only just registered in unobservant mummy's brain today).
    • Now, call me naive / unobservant / clueless, but I didn't realise that Qurious was designed for a slightly less heterosexual patron than I. I simply assumed the owner was rather indecisive on choice of colour scheme.
    • Two fraudulent uses of your debit/credit card on your checking account knowing that you are an unobservant idiot
    • The much-vaunted plot ‘twist’ stretches your credulity to the limit: suffice to say that in order to believe it, you would also have to believe that Skinner is woefully unobservant.
    • You'd have to have been pretty unobservant not to know there was poverty in New Orleans.
    • However, it would be a mistake to suppose that Walker was foolish or unobservant.
    Synonyms
    rash, unwise, careless, heedless, thoughtless, reckless, unthinking, imprudent, misguided, ill-advised, ill-judged, injudicious, impolitic, unguarded, foolhardy, foolish

Derivatives

  • unobservantly

  • adverb
    • Was it anything of special significance that I have unobservantly missed?
      Example sentencesExamples
      • She spends an excessive amount of time preening in various mirrors while unobservantly missing paranormal activities behind her, but otherwise, I suppose the nicest thing that can be said is that you don't want her to die.
      • This is a very unusual stance for an investor to take, who should rather be interested in using situations unobservantly that the competitors have not yet discovered.
      • Pound wished poetry to escape from what he felt was a rising tide of sloppy, flabby, sing-song verse, inaccurately and unobservantly phrased.
      • ‘I was raised unobservantly by a Jewish mother,’ she wrote.
 
 

Definition of unobservant in US English:

unobservant

adjectiveˌənəbˈzərvəntˌənəbˈzərvənt
  • Not observant.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • You'd have to be very unobservant not to have noticed that there are an awful lot of bloggers with an avowedly (and sometimes aggressively) libertarian political philosophy.
    • To tell you the truth, I've never really been aware of them but, being the unobservant sort, I'm unreliable in such things.
    • Two fraudulent uses of your debit/credit card on your checking account knowing that you are an unobservant idiot
    • It sounded like they were in the middle of a song, though I hadn't remembered the music coming in, though maybe I was just being unobservant, or something.
    • You can read extremely edited highlights of the following interview in the latest edition of Web User magazine, out today (only 99p from all good newsagents, and free from all unobservant newsagents).
    • The much-vaunted plot ‘twist’ stretches your credulity to the limit: suffice to say that in order to believe it, you would also have to believe that Skinner is woefully unobservant.
    • If she loved to talk, Mercedes was not unobservant, especially when she was observing these two.
    • It would only take an unobservant secretary or a slip of the pen and suddenly Selby's first team flanker Duncan Phillips is dropped to the thirds, while his brother Owen is handed a place in Yorkshire One side.
    • Even after the trauma of the attacks on New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, this extraordinarily unobservant system creaked on.
    • I said I hadn't noticed it, to which it replied, ‘That's because you are somewhat unobservant and also rather repressed.’
    • As it happens, we find we already have many Jews, many atheists and agnostics, and many relatively unobservant Christians and Buddhists.
    • The jokes in Daniel Goldfarb's affable comedy about an unlikely friendship between observant and unobservant Jews are as New York - specific as the cityscape set.
    • Fortunately he was very unobservant so I could keep flicking my eyes away from my book to see which page he was on, and as we passed through Harold Wood, I saw that he was reading my column.
    • Twice when I have been crossing with my child I have nearly been knocked down by speeding unobservant drivers - it's not a very nice encounter.
    • Blogger have recently added a new feature (well it's new to me, but I'm fairly unobservant, so it's probably been around for months) allowing you to create your own little profile page.
    • You'd have to have been pretty unobservant not to know there was poverty in New Orleans.
    • Now, call me naive / unobservant / clueless, but I didn't realise that Qurious was designed for a slightly less heterosexual patron than I. I simply assumed the owner was rather indecisive on choice of colour scheme.
    • He would have then given me my false 10p back, but I would have been safe in the knowledge that eventually I would be able to pass it on, to someone as stupid and unobservant as me.
    • However, it would be a mistake to suppose that Walker was foolish or unobservant.
    • Akra Jr has started to use two new words in their correct context today (actually, he may have been using them before but has only just registered in unobservant mummy's brain today).
    Synonyms
    rash, unwise, careless, heedless, thoughtless, reckless, unthinking, imprudent, misguided, ill-advised, ill-judged, injudicious, impolitic, unguarded, foolhardy, foolish
 
 
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