unwitting
Adjective Satellite
- not done with purpose or intent
- "an unwitting mistake may be overlooked"
- unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge
- "his rudeness was unwitting"
Adjective
- not aware or knowing
- "an unwitting subject in an experiment"
Adj
- unaware or uninformed; oblivious
- unintentional
Origin / 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
ignorant, unintentional, unknowing, unknowledgeable, unplanned, accidental, benighted, cimmerian, clueless, designless, foolish, ill-informed, illiterate, inadvertent, innocent, involuntary, lack-learning, lay, lewd, loreless, nescient, oblivious, philistine, unaware, uncultivated, uncultured, undesigned, uneducated, unenlightened, unerudite, uninformed, unintended, unlearned, unlearnt, unlettered, unmindful, unpurposed, unread, unscholarly, unschooled, untaught, untrained, untutored, unwitting
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 13
unwitting: valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordunwitting: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
unwitting: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary