Unaware
[ʌnə'weə] or [,ʌnə'wɛr]
Definition
(adj.) (often followed by `of') not aware; 'seemed unaware of the scrutiny'; 'unaware of the danger they were in'; 'unaware of the newborn hope'; 'the most unaware person I've known' .
Edited by Dorothy--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Not aware; not noticing; giving no heed; thoughtless; inattentive.
(adv.) Unawares.
Typist: Terrence
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Inattentive, heedless, unconscious, not cognizant.
Checker: Nanette
Definition
adv. without being or making aware: suddenly: unexpectedly—also Unawares′.—At unawares unexpectedly at a sudden disadvantage.
Checker: Sumner
Examples
- For some moments she would be unaware of Gerald. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Gudrun was unaware of what he was feeling, he seemed so quiet and amiable, as usual. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I catch him coming on post, again pass him as unaware of his existence, and again he undergoes grinding torments. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- But of the split itself he is unaware; the result is a kind of unconscious hypocrisy, an instability of disposition. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Unaware that he was the victim of a practical joke, Edison proceeded gravely to stow away the money in his overcoat pockets and all his other pockets. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Do you not perceive death in my face, replied she, it is strange; I ought to have expected this, and yet I confess it has taken me unaware. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He was unaware of anybody's presence. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- This does not mean, however, that students are to be seduced unaware into preoccupation with lessons. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He was unaware of it, but she knew. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Then we face one another, and I pass him as unaware of his existence, and he undergoes grinding torments. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It was like a man still walking about the world unaware that he has contracted a fatal disease which will alter every routine and habit in his life. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He glanced up, unaware, and saw the bride and her father standing on the path above him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- That is the man who is after me to-night Watson, and that is the man who is quite unaware that we are after him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He was unaware of her, or of Loerke or anybody. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But Gerald remained as if genial and happy, unaware that he was waiting or unoccupied, knowing himself the very pivot of the occasion. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- All of us have many habits of whose import we are quite unaware, since they were formed without our knowing what we were about. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Checker: Sumner