unobserving

English

Etymology

un- +‎ observing

Adjective

unobserving (comparative more unobserving, superlative most unobserving)

  1. Failing to observe something; unobservant.
    • 1888, Edward Eggleston, The Mystery of Metropolisville‎:
      It was full of heartbreak, and Katy was too unobserving to notice how round and steady and commercial the penmanship was, and how large and fine were the flourishes.
    • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
      In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.
    • 1908, George Barr McCutcheon, The Man From Brodney's‎:
      Then she looked at Chase and winked, with a meaning nod at the unobserving Deppingham.
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