Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not observant; not attentive; heedless: as, an unobservant traveler or reader.
- Not careful to comply with what is prescribed or required: as, one unobservant of etiquette.
- Not obsequious.
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- adjective Not
observant .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not consciously observing
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Examples
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Perhaps that is why, of all the many Jewish holidays, the one that is most observed -- even by those who profess to be "unobservant" -- is Passover and the Passover
Chabad.org Weekly Magazine [ Korach 5769 - June 26, 2009 ] 2009
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The observant reader soon loses faith in them from their constant failure to take him right; and the unobservant is the victim of false security.
Shall and Will. 1908
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First, adolescent attendance at religious services seems to have become steadily less common over this period.15 Of college freshmen in 1968, barely 8 percent had attended no religious services in the previous year, but by 2009 that entirely unobservant fraction of young people had more than tripled to 25 percent.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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But the wild-dog, three feet from his lair under the trade-boxes, was not unobservant.
CHAPTER IV 2010
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Either you are woefully or wilfully unobservant or he's exaggerating his condition in order to make excuses for unacceptable behaviour.
Dear Mariella: My new boyfriend says he has issues and doesn't want to kiss me. What should I do? 2012
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Funny how so many can go through life so unobservant of the things around them ….
Think Progress » Fifteen States Have Polluter-Driven Resolutions To Deny Climate Threat 2010
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I was twenty when I made the trip an unobservant Jew, with no felt connection to, or great interest in, my past.
A Conversation with Jonathan Safran Foer about Everything Is Illuminated 2010
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He plodded on with bowed head, unobservant, mechanically rubbing nose and cheeks, and batting his steering hand against the gee-pole in the straight trail-stretches.
A DAY'S LODGING 2010
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As I drove home, my husband drove frantically to the store and cleared off the shelves, purchasing ten more cans of the formula, assumingly from the unobservant Paul, giving us even more funds to save.
One Cent Baby Nathaniel Tower 2011
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Either I was just unobservant or (thankfully) in the wrong place …
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