3 uses
(click/touch triangles for details)
Definition
unaware of
- It was the same look he then delivered to the congregation—oblivious to, if not contemptuous of, the gifts the wise men and the shepherds laid at his feet.p. 223.3
- Although it was only two o'clock in the afternoon, Hester had already consumed several rum and Cokes; she was sound asleep in her bedroom—as oblivious to Owen's and my discussion as my mother was.p. 368.6
- He was a wild, hairy young man in a purple caftan—oblivious to how the girls stared at him and seemingly held together by wires and cords that entangled him in his cumbersome recording equipment.p. 583.1
There are no more uses of "oblivious" in A Prayer for Owen Meany.
Typical Usage
(best examples)