Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Without knowing; ignorantly.
Wiktionary
- adv. In an unwitting manner; inadvertently, unintentionally, unknowingly.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. without knowledge or intention
Etymologies
- From unwitting. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Mark Penn once again unwittingly gives us the real reason why Hillary lost because peolple alike him and Bill Clinton didn't understand that we are tired of the same ole stuff.”
Clinton advisor blames strategy disagreements, money for loss
“The scientist Isaac Dan der Gimnebulin unwittingly unleashes a terrible menace on the city, and must do what he can to stone for his mistake.”
“Broussard," and in the extreme excitement I spoke his name unwittingly,”
“This would only reproduce wittingly what Millions-type lists do unwittingly, which is to assume that anything remotely useful can be accomplished by making lists and choosing up sides.”
“As you collect points and your avatar "matures" into higher and higher levels, you are doing something, unwittingly, that is amazing.”
The Huffington Post: Dr. Jeffrey H. Toney: Harvesting MMORPG Time
“As the term CBO unwittingly indicated, it would be a combined, not an integrated, bombing offense.”
“‘A great hope crushed in its infancy,’ was her reply, a phrase that unwittingly captured not only her short life but the spirit she represented.”
“The new business secretary said as much last week in his first big speech in the job, noting that Balls had "unwittingly" explained the rationale for a department which emerged from the doldrums under Peter Mandelson's stewardship during Labour's dying days.”
“It is why many of us try - even though we are not all as gifted as you in expressing the need to be outraged at all the cruelty so many of us "unwittingly" participate in with every bite from our plates.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘unwittingly’.
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Anxiety
apprehension =wor..., regularity, dread, brood, palpitation, gradual, troublesome, virtually, irrational=unreas..., phobia=irrational..., phobic=fearful= adj, affiliated=united and 54 more...
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kringlan's Words
fecund, riposte, nebbish, nonpareil, deign, eschew, imbroglio, spelunking, fop, foofaraw, tundra, talon and 128 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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slumry's Words
cattywampus, ingratiate, lackadaisical, exactitude, exfoliate, fulminate, circumnavigation, circuitous, debride, sidle, sequester, chicory and 1002 more...
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Un-word List
untrammelled, untoward, unenthusiastically, unenthusiastic, undaunted, uncanny, unceasing, unbridled, unacknowledged, unacquainted, unadorned, unaffected and 239 more...
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newGRE
mostly from magoosh
imbue, verge on, nonchalant, deliberate, timorous, futile, provisional, dissect, checked, tinged, alluring, visionary and 1046 more...
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Adverbia
A long list of adverbs, beginning with full-drive. Someone had to list them. This list in continued in the list More Adverbia.
Read some sniping and some informative commentary about a...full-drive, portentously, unlawfully, legally, heterogeneously, consumingly, clancularly, inconsolably, prepositionally, retrogressively, symptomatically, decrepitly and 2460 more...
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oneasterism's words
Words that I like, that I don't use often enough, that are new to me, that friends and family have taught me, and so on.
lugubrious, reticent, eschelon, missive, penchant, copious, conspicuous, tranquil, redolent, asinine, inane, dilatory and 625 more...
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Misdirector's Cut
Hey...
—> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> LOOK OVER THERE! —> —> —>
...sneaky, legerdemain, flimflam, unwittingly, clandestine, hornswoggle, sleveen, subversion, espionage, incognito, subreption, gank and 147 more...
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Russo Vocab Test
ostracize, innumerable, chiffonier, qualm, compulsory, sadism, masochism, falsetto, liberate, rile, pacifist, unscrupulous and 56 more...
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simple & useful 14
fabrication, parapet, transverse, erecting, dimpled, blistering, epoxy, scrubbable, immersion, puttying, sandpapered, stippled and 65 more...
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New words from Reading
woe, kingmaker, tizzy, lark, verity, marzipan, swoon, chutzpah, quiescence, curlicue, bedevil, quixotic and 69 more...
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arianell's Words
soporific, palimpsest, unwittingly, byzantine, coquettish, gilded, pomegranate, languorous, wary, esoteric, emerald, schooner and 23 more...
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Regular English
betterment, scrub, bogus, swarm, dissension, unwittingly, bitter, appropriate, bliss, attainment, descendant, runways and 4 more...
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