Unwitting - English meaning

adjective

Happening by chance, unintentionally, or unexpectedly.

Usage examples:

A verdict of accidental death

noun

A sign indicating a momentary departure from the key signature by raising or lowering a note.

Usage examples:

Horn parts are usually written without key signature, the necessary accidentals being added

Happening by chance or unexpectedly or unintentionally

noun

A possibility of something happening.

Usage examples:

There is a chance of winning the raffle

adjective

Fortuitous; accidental.

Usage examples:

A chance meeting

verb

Do something by accident or without intending to.

Usage examples:

He was very effusive if they chanced to meet

adjective

Lacking knowledge or awareness in general; uneducated or unsophisticated.

Usage examples:

He was told constantly that he was ignorant and stupid

adjective

Having no knowledge or awareness of something or of things in general

Usage examples:

We were very young, ignorant, unskilled men., you have to assume that incoming students have an alm…

adjective

Not having enough knowledge, understanding, or information about something

Usage examples:

Ignorant about many teenagers are surprisingly ignorant about current politics., blissfully ignoran…

phrase

In a state of ignorance.

Usage examples:

The player is still in the dark about his future

idiom

Not informed about things that might be useful to know

Usage examples:

Our boss tends to keep us in the dark most of the time., “do you know anything?” “no, i'm completel…

adjective

Not resulting from or achieved through deliberate planning.

Usage examples:

An inadvertent administrative error occurred that resulted in an overpayment

adjective

Done or happening unintentionally

Usage examples:

An inadvertent mistake, i inadvertently gave her change for $20, but she’d only given me $10.

adjective

Lacking knowledge or awareness.

Usage examples:

The government appears incognizant of the growing threat to our agricultural industry

adjective

Not guilty of a crime or offence.

Usage examples:

The prisoners were later found innocent

noun

A pure, guileless, or naive person.

Usage examples:

A young innocent abroad

adjective

(of a person) not guilty of a particular crime

Usage examples:

Innocent of he firmly believes that she is innocent of the crime.

adjective

Done without will or conscious control.

Usage examples:

She gave an involuntary shudder

adjective

Not done willingly, or not done intentionally

Usage examples:

A sharp tap beneath the knee usually causes an involuntary movement of the lower leg., the driver o…

adjective

Not done by choice, or not done as a result of someone's decision or intention

Usage examples:

Involuntary unemployment means that you suffer a total loss of salary as the result of the loss of …

adjective

Lacking knowledge; ignorant.

Usage examples:

I ventured into the new korean restaurant with some equally nescient companions

adjective

Not having knowledge about something

Usage examples:

A nescient interpretation of the facts

adjective

Not aware of or concerned about what is happening around one.

Usage examples:

She became absorbed, oblivious to the passage of time

adjective

Not aware of or not noticing something, esp. what is happening around you

Usage examples:

She was often oblivious to the potential consequences of her actions.

adjective

Having no knowledge of a situation or fact.

Usage examples:

They were unaware of his absence

adverb

Variant of unawares.

adverb

Without being aware of a situation.

Usage examples:

The photographer had caught her unawares

adjective

Not awake and aware of and responding to one's environment.

Usage examples:

The boy was beaten unconscious

noun

The part of the mind which is inaccessible to the conscious mind but which affects behaviour and emotions.

Usage examples:

Horrific apparitions surfaced out of the recesses of his unconscious

Lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception

adjective

Not having or showing an enlightened outlook.

Usage examples:

Unenlightened thinking

adjective

Not having or showing awareness or understanding of the facts.

Usage examples:

Uninformed criticism of conservation projects

adjective

Not knowing much or having much information about something

Usage examples:

For a journalist, he seems surprisingly uninformed about what is happening in the news., individual…

adjective

Not planned or meant.

Usage examples:

The unintended consequences of people's actions

adjective

Not done on purpose.

Usage examples:

The translation added a layer of unintentional comedy

adjective

Not planned or intended

adjective

Not knowing or aware.

Usage examples:

The lions moved stealthily towards their unknowing victims

noun

Lack of awareness or knowledge.

Usage examples:

Situatedness promises knowledge but in practice leaves us in a cloud of unknowing about our place i…

verb

Erase the memory or knowledge of (something, typically something unpleasant or distasteful).

Usage examples:

Once you have information about what’s in your genes, you can’t unknow it

adjective

Not meant or intended.

Usage examples:

An unmeant threat

adjective

Not intended

Usage examples:

He forthrightly claimed that any implication that he disagreed was unmeant., she was absolutely dev…

adjective

Not conscious or aware.

Usage examples:

Danielle seemed unmindful of her parents' plight

adjective

Not remembering, noticing, or being careful about something

adjective

Not planned.

Usage examples:

An unplanned pregnancy

adjective

Not planned or expected

Usage examples:

An unplanned pregnancy

adjective

(of an act, remark, or state) not thought out or planned beforehand.

Usage examples:

It was a totally unpremeditated attack

adjective

(especially of a crime or something unpleasant) done without being planned

adjective

(of a person or animal) not aware of the presence of danger; feeling no suspicion.

Usage examples:

Anti-personnel mines lie in wait for their unsuspecting victims

adjective

Trusting; not aware of any danger or harm

Usage examples:

The fish sometimes leap into the air and smack into unsuspecting boaters.

adjective

Expressed, done, or acting without proper consideration of the consequences.

Usage examples:

She was at pains to correct unthinking prejudices

adjective

Not based on serious thought or an examination of the information

Usage examples:

What annoys me about these people is their unthinking hostility to anything foreign or unfamiliar.