unwitting

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a. 不知情的, 没有意识到的, 不知不觉的

词形变化

more unwitting 比较级 most unwitting 最高级

别名

unweeting

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Unaware or uninformed; oblivious.

  2. 2.

    Unintentional.

    (transl.) 4th century BC, Plato, Sophist, 230a Some people, apparently, have thought about it and reached the conclusion that every case of being misinformed is unwitting.

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 5

ignorant unintentional unplanned unknowing unknowledgeable

反义词 1

witting

近义相关 2

unintended uninformed

参见 2

unaware incognizant

词源

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.

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