amnesiac

variants or amnesic

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for amnesiac
Adjective
  • Back on the domestic front, Jeanine has reason to believe that her husband, Paul (Mark O’Brien), is having an affair with her senile mother’s caregiver.
    Michael Rechtshaffen, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Don Quixote himself is too often a senile dodderer; Daniel Rubin was creaky in body but youthfully quixotic in spirit.
    Jeffrey Gantz, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
Adjective
  • The same woman who used to have fun behind her camera now seems sleepy, dazed, and even drugged.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Some seemed visibly dazed to suddenly be back in their homeland.
    Patrick Oppmann, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Everybody seems bewildered by this news, his own wife most of all.
    Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Layered in cream, bruised, bewildered, bald.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 30 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • He's witnessed countless episodes of passengers wearing noise-canceling headphones and earbuds walking through airport terminals, oblivious to their surroundings and putting themselves and others in danger.
    Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Oh, to be oblivious like Daniel.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Science fiction is still preoccupied with real world fears about the pitfalls and potential dangers of AI.
    Bruce Dorminey, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • What's popular is appearing preoccupied, too busy scrolling on one's phone to look around—and too caught up with one's many friends to make any new ones at a mall.
    Annabelle Canela, Parents, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Under captain Eric Brown, the GB&I team was even instructed not to help opponents search for lost balls.
    Tim Corlett, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The show is set in a boarding house in 1911, where a man arrives in search of his lost wife.
    Liz Rothaus Bertrand, Charlotte Observer, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The third company is plagued with bad luck, with either a forgetful lead singer or slip-ups in choreography.
    Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Audiences at the pop star's Forget Tomorrow World Tour, are worried the singer's 50-city stretch is just that, forgetful.
    Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 30 July 2025
Adjective
  • Kendall took off his shirt, unmindful of the scar slashing down his torso.
    Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The unmindful construction planning, noise and light pollution, and Tesla traffic jams have meanwhile done nothing to endear the diner to those living nearby — the lifeblood of most successful restaurants — and anti-Musk demonstrators are organizing a series of protests at the location.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 27 July 2025
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“Amnesiac.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amnesiac. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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