inobservant

adjective

Definition of inobservantnext
as in inattentive

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inobservant
  1. inattentive
  2. unfocused
  3. abstracted
  4. absent
  5. distracted
  6. lost
  7. oblivious
  8. preoccupied
Adjective
  • As for Apple Intelligence, being inattentive to disability vis-a-vis accessibility to instead push a juicy, fatalistic narrative about Apple playing catchup isn’t happenstance either.
    Steven Aquino, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
  • In many cases, voters did not even bother to read the names on the ballots, enabling some unscrupulous politicos to use their opponents’ symbols to trick inattentive voters.
    Jonathan W. White, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024
Definition of inattentive
Adjective
  • The former president's public addresses have seemingly become more disjointed and unfocused in recent months, something The New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman raised on CNN's The Source show last month.
    Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 2 Nov. 2024
  • But unfocused spite — sprays of purposeless vandalism — can be funny for only so long.
    Brandon Sanchez, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024
Definition of unfocused
Adjective
  • Larry Aldrich, the museum’s founder, visited Diamond’s studio in 1972 and subsequently acquired Untitled (1972), one of her early abstracted landscapes, and put it in a group show—marking her first museum acquisition and exhibition.
    Grace Edquist, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The dialectic talk can feel a bit abstracted from politics, as can spotting Marx in every mention of equity.
    Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
Definition of abstracted
Adjective
  • The role of non-European countries in the war will only grow, and these states will not be absent from the diplomacy that concludes the war.
    Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 7 Nov. 2024
  • For more info: Colonial Williamsburg Take a virtual tour COMMENTARY: Taking a kinder, gentler tone against the rudeness of politics Civility has been absent from much of this presidential campaign.
    David Morgan, CBS News, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of absent
Adjective
  • Grieving widows and parents across the country told them about the patchwork of laws against distracted driving, and the inconsistent citations or sentencing handed down to careless motorists.
    Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 7 Nov. 2024
  • Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is in some ways itself a product of those concerns, both as a 36-years-later sequel and as a story about how Lydia has since stepped into the position of the distracted parent who’s unable to connect with their own moody child.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2024
Definition of distracted
Adjective
  • Sofia is still shedding a tear for Gia’s lost innocence when Oz calls her with the news he’s killed Sal.
    Andy Andersen, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Instead, new savings are needed to offset the lost real value.
    John S. Tobey, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of lost
Adjective
  • As much as parents may think their children are oblivious, research shows kids, including very young ones, are paying attention.
    Vox Staff, Vox, 6 Nov. 2024
  • However, people were oblivious of its presence on Guam until 1953, and still unaware of its deadly rapid spread until much later.
    Scott Travers, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
Definition of oblivious
Adjective
  • Indeed, no one is more preoccupied with such star power than Donald Trump himself, who basks in the adulation and approval of luminaries who support him and regularly lashes out at those who don’t.
    Brian Lowry, Variety, 4 Nov. 2024
  • And Beltran seems very preoccupied with making sure that Amelia knows she’s not taken.
    Laura Bradley, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024
Definition of preoccupied
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