inobservant

English

Etymology

Latin inobservans.

Adjective

inobservant (comparative more inobservant, superlative most inobservant)

  1. Not observant; heedless.
    • March 1, 1772, Richard Hurd, sermon on St. Matthew, xi, 29
      If they are petulant or unjust, he, perhaps, has been inobservant or imprudent […]

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “inobservant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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