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Overlooked vs Oversight - What's the difference?

overlooked | oversight |

As an adjective overlooked

is missed, unnoticed.

As a verb overlooked

is (overlook).

As a noun oversight is

an omission; something that is left out, missed or forgotten.

overlooked

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Missed, unnoticed.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (overlook)

    • Anagrams

    *

    oversight

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An omission; something that is left out, missed or forgotten.
  • Supervision or management.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Can China clean up fast enough? , passage=It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.}}