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unknowing

[ uhn-noh-ing ]

adjective

  1. ignorant or unaware:

    unknowing aid to the enemy.



unknowing

/ ʌnˈnəʊɪŋ /

adjective

  1. not knowing; ignorant
  2. postpositiveoften foll byof without knowledge or unaware (of)


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Derived Forms

  • unˈknowingly, adverb

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Other Words From

  • un·knowing·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of unknowing1

Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; un- 1, knowing

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Example Sentences

“Maybe we need a new category other than theism, atheism or agnosticism that takes paradox and unknowing into account,” he writes.

At the reception the unknowing DJ played “The Way You Make Me Feel,” by Michael Jackson.

The result smacks of paranoid fear-mongering inside a cloud of unknowing instead of a clear-eyed search for the truth.

Much like the Landon debacle, media coverage of Piedmont has primarily focused on the “unknowing” girls who were targeted.

Outside he could still hear the busy sounds of the street—the world was going on its way, unknowing, unheeding.

Meanwhile the Duke, all unknowing, appeared in the doorway in his appointed place.

Auersperg himself, unknowing, had provided the way and he was sending them not only in comfort but in luxury.

The man who wrote had gone away unknowing of the blackness of the tragedy he had left behind.

Never was anything so singular as the discovery of old acquaintances where I had reason to suppose myself unknowing and unknown.

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