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
Atkinson plays the titular role, a clueless man who lives alone, rarely speaks, and struggles to exist as a functional adult in the world.
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Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Mar. 2026
Williams is relatively clueless beyond opposition to unjustified, racially discriminatory use of lethal force on display in the deaths of Trayvon Martin, George Floyd and a disturbing chronicle of other homicides.
—Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 5 Mar. 2026
Winning by rallying the naïve and clueless is one thing, but administering a throbbing behemoth is a greater challenge.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 18 Feb. 2026
Unity is probably aiming at developers who don’t know any better, or the clueless, dollar-sign-for-eyes bosses who will force it on their underlings.
—Frank Landymore, Futurism, 18 Feb. 2026
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Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Mar. 2026
Williams is relatively clueless beyond opposition to unjustified, racially discriminatory use of lethal force on display in the deaths of Trayvon Martin, George Floyd and a disturbing chronicle of other homicides.
—Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 5 Mar. 2026
Winning by rallying the naïve and clueless is one thing, but administering a throbbing behemoth is a greater challenge.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 18 Feb. 2026
Unity is probably aiming at developers who don’t know any better, or the clueless, dollar-sign-for-eyes bosses who will force it on their underlings.
—Frank Landymore, Futurism, 18 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clueless
Adjective
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Excluding industry from the room doesn’t make for ‘independent’ policy but sets the table for ignorant policy.—
Morgan Chalfant,
semafor.com,
10 Apr. 2026
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Being ignorant but rational, the proto-citizens will necessarily settle on what Rawls called the Two Principles of Justice.—
George G. Szpiro,
Big Think,
9 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Robby reads the medical history of the patient, unaware that the patient is actually Al-Hashimi.—
Raven Brunner,
PEOPLE,
10 Apr. 2026
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Max comes across as this really unaware guy.—
Carly Thomas,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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To this lesson, as to so many ironies screaming out from his prose, Tillman appears oblivious.—
Jonathan Chait,
The Atlantic,
10 Apr. 2026
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His collaborators remained unaware — or kept willfully oblivious — about the allegations.—
Mosi Reeves,
Rolling Stone,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Clueless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clueless. Accessed 14 Apr. 2026.
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