Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not observing; inattentive; heedless.
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- adjective Failing to
observe something;unobservant .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Filled with dreary imaginations, I passed through many beautiful and majestic scenes; but my eyes were fixed and unobserving.
Chapter 1 2010
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Filled with dreary imaginations, I passed through many beautiful and majestic scenes; but my eyes were fixed and unobserving.
Chapter 18 2010
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To an eye so unobserving as that of Bucklaw, her demeanour had little more of reluctance than might suit the character of a bashful young lady, who, however, he could not disguise from himself, was complying with the choice of her friends rather than exercising any personal predilection in his favour.
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These, when observing men have made them, unobserving men, when they are proposed to them, cannot refuse their assent to.
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There was but one other present, a country lout who stood swallowing his wine, equally unobserved by all and unobserving — to him he dealt a glance of murderous suspicion, and turned direct upon his wife.
Lay Morals 2005
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Filled with dreary imaginations, I passed through many beautiful and majestic scenes; but my eyes were fixed and unobserving.
Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004
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Filled with dreary imaginations, I passed through many beautiful and majestic scenes; but my eyes were fixed and unobserving.
Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004
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Filled with dreary imaginations, I passed through many beautiful and majestic scenes; but my eyes were fixed and unobserving.
Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004
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I must excuse them, I really must forgive them; this was too bad, he had been so unobserving ....
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Adrian and I, leaving Clara and Evelyn wrapt in peaceful unobserving slumber, carried the body to this desolate spot, and placed it in those caves of ice beneath the glacier, which rive and split with the slightest sound, and bring destruction on those within the clefts — no bird or beast of prey could here profane the frozen form.
The Last Man 2003
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