Word Meanings - OVERSIGHT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Watchful care; superintendence; general supervision. 2. An overlooking; an omission; an error. Hooker. 3. Escape from an overlooked peril. "His fool-happy oversight." Spenser. Syn. -- Superintendence; supervision; inspection; overlooking;

Additional info about word: OVERSIGHT

1. Watchful care; superintendence; general supervision. 2. An overlooking; an omission; an error. Hooker. 3. Escape from an overlooked peril. "His fool-happy oversight." Spenser. Syn. -- Superintendence; supervision; inspection; overlooking; inadvertence; neglect; mistake; error; omission.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OVERSIGHT)

• Blunder
• Error
• mistake
• misunderstanding
• fault
• oversight
• inaccuracy
• delusion
• slip
• Omission
• Oversight
• exclusion

Related words: (words related to OVERSIGHT)

• FAULTINESS
  Quality or state of being faulty. Round, even to faultiness. Shak.
• EXCLUSIONIST
  One who would exclude another from some right or privilege; esp., one of the anti-popish politicians of the time of Charles
• BLUNDERHEAD
  A stupid, blundering fellow.
• BLUNDERER
  One who is apt to blunder.
• ERRORFUL
  Full of error; wrong. Foxe.
• MISTAKEN
  1. Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken. 2. Erroneous; wrong; as, a mistaken notion.
• EXCLUSIONARY
  Tending to exclude; causing exclusion; exclusive.
• MISTAKER
  One who mistakes. Well meaning ignorance of some mistakers. Bp. Hall.
• FAULT
  A lost scent; act of losing the scent. Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled, With much ado, the cold fault cleary out. Shak. (more info) falta), fr. a verb meaning to want, fail, freq., fr. L. fallere to 1. Defect; want;
• MISTAKE
  1. To take or choose wrongly. Shak. 2. To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend, or misconceive; as, to mistake a remark; to mistake one's meaning. Locke. My father's purposes have been mistook. Shak. 3. To substitute in thought
• BLUNDERING
  Characterized by blunders.
• FAULTING
  The state or condition of being faulted; the process by which a fault is produced.
• MISUNDERSTANDER
  One who misunderstands. Sir T. More.
• BLUNDERINGLY
  In a blundering manner.
• MISUNDERSTANDING
  1. Mistake of the meaning; error; misconception. Bacon. 2. Disagreement; difference of opinion; dissension; quarrel. "Misunderstandings among friends." Swift.
• INACCURACY
  1. The quality of being inaccurate; want of accuracy or exactness. 2. That which is inaccurate or incorrect; mistake; fault; defect; error; as, in inaccuracy in speech, copying, calculation, etc.
• EXCLUSION
  The act of expelling or ejecting a fetus or an egg from the womb. 3. Thing emitted. Sir T. Browne. (more info) 1. The act of excluding, or of shutting out, whether by thrusting out or by preventing admission; a debarring; rejection; prohibition;
• EXCLUSIONISM
  The character, manner, or principles of an exclusionist.
• BLUNDERBUSS
  to G. büchse box, gun, E. box; or corrupted fr. D. donderbus 1. A short gun or firearm, with a large bore, capable of holding a number of balls, and intended to do execution without exact aim. 2. A stupid, blundering fellow.
• FAULT-FINDING
  The act of finding fault or blaming; -- used derogatively. Also Adj.
• PICK-FAULT
  One who seeks out faults.
• TERRORLESS
  Free from terror. Poe.
• SELF-DELUSION
  The act of deluding one's self, or the state of being thus deluded.
• TERRORIZE
  To impress with terror; to coerce by intimidation. Humiliated by the tyranny of foreign despotism, and terrorized by ecclesiastical authority. J. A. Symonds.