unwitting

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj

Unaware or uninformed; oblivious.
Unintentional.

Word forms

unwitting more unwitting most unwitting

Etymology

From Middle English unwittinge, unwitand, from Old English unwitende (“unwitting; not knowing; unaware; unconscious”), from Proto-Germanic *unwitandz (“not knowing”), equivalent to un- + witting. Cognate with West Frisian ûnwittend, Dutch onwetend, German Low German unwetend, German unwissend and unwissentlich, Icelandic óvitandi.

Synonyms

clueless ignorant benighted cimmerian foolish ill-informed illiterate innocent lack-learning lay lewd loreless nescient oblivious philistine tenebrose unaware uncultivated uncultured uneducated unenlightened unerudite uninformed unknowing unknowledgeable unlearned unlearnt unlettered unmindful unread unscholarly unschooled untaught untrained untutored unwitting inadvertent unintended accidental designless involuntary undesigned unintentional unplanned unpurposed

Antonyms

aware cognizant deliberate

Related words

unweeting witting

Derived words

unwittingly unwittingness

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