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[ uhn-wit-ing ] / ʌnˈwɪt ɪŋ / SEE SYNONYMS FOR unwitting ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivenot intentional or deliberate; inadvertent; accidental: His insult, though unwitting, pained her. not knowing; unaware; ignorant; oblivious; unconscious: an unwitting person. Origin of unwittingFirst recorded before 900; Middle English; Old English unwittende; see un-1, wit2, -ing2 OTHER WORDS FROM unwittingun·wit·ting·ly, adverbun·wit·ting·ness, nounWords nearby unwittingunwish, unwished, unwished-for, unwit, unwitnessed, unwitting, unwittingly, unwitty, unwonted, unworkable, unworldly Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for unwittingThe email appears to have been a relatively common attempt to gain personal information from a wide range of unwitting victims. Was Sony Hit With a Second Hack?|Shane Harris|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST The average reader, he declares, is but an unwitting receptacle for media narratives. What is the News? Whatever Alain de Botton Thinks It Is|Robert Herritt|February 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST Marcus, for example, argued that Freud was an unwitting modernist master and “Dora” “a great work of literature.” Psychoanalysis as Literature: Stephen Grosz’s ‘The Examined Life’|Lucy Scholes|June 5, 2013|DAILY BEAST Christopher Clark reminds us that the “Great War for Civilization” was an unwitting suicide pact. The Utterly Pointless First World War|Michael F. Bishop|May 22, 2013|DAILY BEAST
I think he can do it, especially with the unwitting help of the Republicans, who get dumber every week. How Obama Can Become Our Era’s Reagan|Michael Tomasky|January 21, 2013|DAILY BEAST I am not aware of ever having done so; if I have been the unwitting instrument of such acts, I am truly sorry for it. Ellen Walton|Alvin Addison Spencer, however, meant to save the unwitting guide from further hazard. The Silent Barrier|Louis Tracy And all of this had been brought about in the most innocent and unwitting way. Woven with the Ship|Cyrus Townsend Brady The artist at least owed Lola a service, since she had been the unwitting instrument of a rupture so long desired by him. Lola Montez|Edmund B. d'Auvergne Continually she was reminded of that vivid episode, of which she had been the unwitting cause. North of Fifty-Three|Bertrand W. Sinclair
British Dictionary definitions for unwitting
adjective (usually prenominal)not knowing or conscious not intentional; inadvertent Derived forms of unwittingunwittingly, adverbunwittingness, nounWord Origin for unwittingOld English unwitende, from un- 1 + witting, present participle of witan to know; related to Old High German wizzan to know, Old Norse vita Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to unwittingunsuspecting, uninformed, inadvertent, forgetful, accidental, aimless, chance, comatose, haphazard, ignorant, incognizant, innocent, involuntary, numb, oblivious, senseless, unacquainted, unaware, unconscious, unfamiliar |