V. not think, not think of, dismiss from the mind, dismiss from the thoughts, indulge in reverie, put away thought, unbend the mind, relax the mind, divert the mind, veg out
Adj. vacant, unintellectual, unideal, unoccupied, unthinking,
inconsiderate, thoughtless,
mindless, no-brain,
vacuous, absent,
diverted,
irrational,
narrow-minded, unthought of, undreamt 'of, unconsidered, off one's mind,
incogitable, not to be thought of
Phr. absence d'esprit, pabulum pictura pascit inani
N. inattention, inconsideration,
inconsiderateness, oversight,
inadvertence,
inadvertency,
nonobservance, disregard,
supineness, etourderie, want of thought,
heedlessness,
insouciance,
abstraction, absence of mind, absorption of mind, preoccupation, distraction,
reverie, brown study, deep musing, fit of abstraction
V. be inattentive, overlook, disregard, pass by not observe, think little of, close one's eyes to, shut one's eyes to, pay no attention to, dismiss from one's thoughts, discard from one's thoughts, discharge from one's thoughts, dismiss from one's mind, discard from one's mind, discharge from one's mind, drop the subject, think no more of, set aside, turn aside, put aside, turn away from, turn one's attention from, turn a deaf ear to, turn one's back upon, abstract oneself, dream, indulge in reverie, escape notice, escape attention, come in at one ear and go out at the other,
forget, call off the attention, draw off the attention, call away the attention, divert the attention, distract the mind, put out of one's head,
disconcert,
discompose, put out,
confuse,
perplex,
bewilder,
moider,
fluster,
muddle,
dazzle, throw a sop to cerberus
Adj. inattentive,
unobservant, unmindful,
heedless, unthinking,
unheeding,
undiscerning,
inadvertent,
mindless, regardless, respectless, listless, blind,
deaf, bird- witted, hand over head,
cursory,
percursory,
giddy-brained, scatter- brained, hare-brained, unreflective, unreflecting, ecervele,
offhand,
dizzy,
muzzy,
brainsick,
giddy, giddy as a goose, wild,
harum-scarum,
rantipole,
highflying,
heedless, careless,
inconsiderate, thoughtless, absent, abstracted,
distrait, absentminded, lost, lost in thought, wrapped in thought,
rapt, in the clouds,
bemused, dreaming on other things, musing on other things, preoccupied,
engrossed, daydreaming, in a reverie, off one's guard,
napping,
dreamy, caught napping,
disconcerted, distracted, put out
Int. stand at ease, stand easy, phr, the attention wanders, one's wits gone a woolgathering, one's wits gone a bird's nesting, it never entered into one's head, the mind running on other things, one's thoughts being elsewhere, had it been a bear it would have bitten you, 129
N. want of -intelligence, want of - intellect, shadowness,
silliness,
foolishness,
imbecility, incapacity, vacancy of mind, poverty of intellect, weakness of intellect, clouded perception, poor head, apartments to let,
stupidity,
stolidity,
hebetude, dull understanding, meanest capacity, shortsightedness,
incompetence, one's weak side, not one's strong point,
bias,
infatuation, simplicity,
puerility,
babyhood,
dotage,
anility, second childishness,
fatuity,
idiocy,
idiotism,
driveling, folly,
frivolity,
irrationality, trifling,
ineptitude,
nugacity,
inconsistency, lip wisdom,
conceit,
sophistry,
giddiness,
eccentricity,
extravagance,
rashness, act of folly, b, be - imbecile, have no -brains, have no sense,
trifle,
drivel, radoter,
dote,
ramble, play the fool, play the monkey, monkey around, fool around, take leave of one's senses (insanity) 503, not see an inch beyond one's nose, stultify oneself, talk nonsense
Adj. unintelligent, unintellectual, unreasoning,
mindless, witless, reasoningless, brainless, halfbaked, having no head, not -bright,
inapprehensible, weak headed, addle headed, puzzle headed, blunder headed, muddle headed, muddy headed, pig headed, beetle headed, buffle headed, chuckle headed, mutton headed, maggoty headed, grossheaded, beef headed, fat witted, fat-headed,
weak-minded,
feeble-minded, dull minded, shallow minded, lack-brained,
rattle-brained, rattle headed, half witted, lean witted, short witted, dull witted,
blunt-witted,
shallow-pated, clod-pated, addle- pated,
dim-sighted, short-sighted,
thick-skulled, weak in the upper story, shallow, borne, weak, wanting, soft,
sappy,
spoony, dull, dull as a beetle,
stupid, heavy,
insulse,
obtuse,
blunt,
stolid,
doltish,
asinine, inapt,
prosaic, hebetudinous,
childish, child-like,
infantine,
infantile,
babyish,
babish,
puerile,
anile, simple,
old-womanish,
fatuous,
idiotic,
imbecile,
driveling,
blatant,
babbling,
vacant,
sottish,
bewildered,
blockish, unteachable boeotian, boeotic,
bovine, ungifted,
undiscerning,
unenlightened, unwise, unphilosophical,
apish, simious,
foolish,
silly, senseless,
irrational,
insensate,
nonsensical,
inept,
maudlin,
narrow-minded,
bigoted,
giddy,
rash,
eccentric,
foolish, unwise,
injudicious, improper, unreasonable, without reason,
ridiculous,
absurd,
idiotic,
silly,
stupid,
asinine, ill-imagined, ill-advised,
ill-judged, ill-devised, mal entendu, inconsistent,
irrational, unphilosophical,
extravagant,
sleeveless, idle, pointless, useless, inexpedient,
frivolous Phr. davus sum non, "a fool's bolt is soon shot" clitellae bovi sunt impositae, "fools rush in where angels fear to tread", il n' a ni bouche ni eperon, "the bookful blockhead, ignorantly read", "to varnish nonsense with the charms of sound"
N. oblivion, obliviousness,
lethe,
forgetfulness,
amnesia, obliteration of, insensibility to the past, short memory, treacherous memory, poor memory, loose memory, slippery memory, failing memory, decay of memory, failure of memory, lapse of memory, waters of lethe, waters of oblivion,
amnesty, general pardon, repressed memory
V. forget, be forgetful, fall into oblivion, sink into oblivion, have a short memory, have no head, forget one's own name, have on the tip of one's tongue, come in one ear and go out the other, slip memory, escape memory, fade from memory, die away from the memory, lose, lose sight of, fail to recall, not be able to recall, unlearn,
efface, discharge from the memory, consign to oblivion, consign to the tomb of the capulets, think no more of, cast behind one's back, wean one's thoughts from, let bygones be bygones
Adj. forgotten, unremembered, past recollection,
bygone, out of mind, buried in oblivion, sunk in oblivion, clean forgotten, gone out of one's head, gone out of one's recollection,
forgetful,
oblivious,
mindless,
lethean, insensible to the past,
heedless Phr. non mi ricordo, the memory failing, the memory deserting one, being at (or in) fault, 2. to the future
N. insensibility, insensibleness, moral insensibility,
inertness,
inertia, vis inertiae,
impassibility,
impassibleness,
inappetency,
apathy,
phlegm, dullness,
hebetude,
supineness,
lukewarmness, cold fit, cold blood, cold heart, coldness, coolness,
frigidity, sang froid,
stoicism,
imperturbation,
nonchalance,
unconcern, dry eyes,
insouciance,
recklessness,
callousness, heart of stone, stock and stone, marble, deadness,
torpor,
torpidity, obstupefaction|,
lethargy,
coma,
trance, vegetative state, sleep, suspended animation,
stupor,
stupefaction,
paralysis,
palsy,
numbness,
neutrality,
quietism, vegetation
V. be insensible, have a rhinoceros hide, show insensibility, not mind, not care, not be affected by, have no desire for, have no interest in, feel no interest in, take no interest in, nil admirari, not care a straw for, disregard, set at naught, turn a deaf ear to,
vegetate, render insensible, render callous,
blunt,
obtund,
numb,
benumb,
paralyze,
deaden,
hebetate,
stun,
stupefy,
brutify,
brutalize,
chloroform,
anaesthetize, put under, assify,
inure, harden the heart, steel,
caseharden,
sear Adj. insensible, unconscious, impassive, impassible, blind to, deaf to, dead to,
unsusceptible,
insusceptible, unimpressionable, unimpressible, passionless, spiritless, heartless, soulless, unfeeling, unmoral,
apathetic, leuco-|,
phlegmatic, dull,
frigid, cold blooded, cold hearted, cold as charity, flat,
maudlin,
obtuse,
inert,
supine,
sluggish,
torpid,
torpedinous,
torporific,
sleepy,
languid,
half-hearted,
tame,
numbed,
comatose,
anaesthetic,
stupefied,
chloroformed,
drugged, stoned, palsy-stricken, indifferent,
lukewarm, careless,
mindless, regardless,
inattentive, neglectful, disregarding, unconcerned,
nonchalant,
pococurante,
insouciant, sans souci, unambitious, unaffected,
unruffled, unimpressed, uninspired, unexcited, unmoved,
unstirred, untouched,
unshocked, unstruck,
unblushing,
unanimated,
vegetative,
callous,
thick-skinned, hard-nosed,
pachydermatous,
impervious,
hardened,
inured,
casehardened, steeled against, proof against,
imperturbable, unfelt
Adv. insensibly, aequo animo, without being moved, without being touched, without being impressed, in cold blood, with dry eyes, with withers unwrung
Phr. never mind, macht nichts, it is of no consequence, it cannot be helped, nothing coming amiss, it is all the same to, it is all one to