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
Jack comes across as a bumbling fool in a live TV interview about the trade, discussing the physical attraction of his dancers in a way that is very clueless for someone in his role.
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Oliver Sava, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2025
The school administrators and our parents were clueless; as teenagers, we were left to fend for ourselves.
—Jon Lee Anderson, Harpers Magazine, 23 Apr. 2025
Pete Hegseth and Mike Waltz—clueless, reckless, predictably defiant—won (46 percent) on the strength of their penchant for oversharing classified information.
—Air Mail, 5 Apr. 2025
Administration officials are absolutely clueless, sloppy and incompetent. — Joe Szczepaniak, Wheaton
War is not a game
I am sickened by the emoji used by those in top government positions (and then some) in the unclassified text thread about war plans and execution of those plans.
—Chicago Tribune, 28 Mar. 2025
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Oliver Sava, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2025
The school administrators and our parents were clueless; as teenagers, we were left to fend for ourselves.
—Jon Lee Anderson, Harpers Magazine, 23 Apr. 2025
Pete Hegseth and Mike Waltz—clueless, reckless, predictably defiant—won (46 percent) on the strength of their penchant for oversharing classified information.
—Air Mail, 5 Apr. 2025
Administration officials are absolutely clueless, sloppy and incompetent. — Joe Szczepaniak, Wheaton
War is not a game
I am sickened by the emoji used by those in top government positions (and then some) in the unclassified text thread about war plans and execution of those plans.
—Chicago Tribune, 28 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clueless
Adjective
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Simone, still at the hospital, remains blissfully ignorant of Kiki’s vengeful turn.—
Caroline Framke,
Vulture,
23 May 2025
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Conservative media, once a proud home to voices like Charles Krauthammer, Jonah Goldberg, and Bill Kristol, now platforms ignorant Trump sycophants who have no use for conservative principles — or principles of any kind.—
S.E. Cupp,
New York Daily News,
22 May 2025
Adjective
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The good news about season 3 taking us back in time is that many of those characters are likely to return, unaware of the grisly fates awaiting them.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
4 June 2025
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Many of these students and their families were unaware of their full mathematical potential.—
Julia Brodsky,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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Photograph by Bettmann / Getty Paul Mantz, who’d remained Earhart’s technical adviser, was at an aviation competition in St. Louis, oblivious to her latest plans.—
Laurie Gwen Shapiro,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
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Save for one completely unconvincing arc in Episode 5, Anton isn’t as oblivious as the rest of his friends.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
28 May 2025
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“Clueless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clueless. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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