as in ignorant
not informed about or aware of something
television producers who seem utterly clueless about the concerns and interests of today's teenagers
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Recent Examples of clueless
The death of the summer job for teens is another reason many Gen Z twenty-somethings seem clueless in the workforce.
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Cortney Harding, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Faced with this nuance, California was largely clueless.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 8 Sep. 2025
One of Al Pacino’s finest performances of the 1970s — which, with the Godfather films and Serpico, is an absurd hot hand — is as the enigmatic, wild-eyed Sonny, a man who performs a desperate bank robbery with his partner (the late John Cazale, by turns heartbreakingly clueless and dopily funny).
—Christina Newland, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
The cast is good, but especially early on, too many characters are just clueless dopes.
—Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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Cortney Harding, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Faced with this nuance, California was largely clueless.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 8 Sep. 2025
One of Al Pacino’s finest performances of the 1970s — which, with the Godfather films and Serpico, is an absurd hot hand — is as the enigmatic, wild-eyed Sonny, a man who performs a desperate bank robbery with his partner (the late John Cazale, by turns heartbreakingly clueless and dopily funny).
—Christina Newland, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
The cast is good, but especially early on, too many characters are just clueless dopes.
—Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clueless
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So what will our ignorant commissioner do with the information?—
Edward Lotterman,
Twin Cities,
28 Sep. 2025
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But criticism quickly began to pile in on Chinese social media, where users denounced the advertising stunt as ignorant of the potential environmental impacts in a remote and pristine ecosystem.—
Chris Lau,
CNN Money,
22 Sep. 2025
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The campaign also claimed that Barrien was unaware that Lee is nonbinary.—
Samantha Riedel,
Them.,
29 Sep. 2025
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The players were initially unaware that person would be Nuno Espirito Santo.—
Roshane Thomas,
New York Times,
28 Sep. 2025
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Told by a mate that just such a brawl is brewing, Jacob (Will Harrison, excellent) goes flying toward an oblivious bystander, fist first, knocking the unsuspecting victim to the ground.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
29 Sep. 2025
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Pixels are flying from shelves as users embrace the AI generation, still oblivious to most of the privacy compromises implied in over-sharing with AI assistants operating in corporate data centers.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Clueless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clueless. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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