unaware
not aware or conscious; unconscious: to be unaware of any change.
Origin of unaware
1Other words for unaware
Other words from unaware
- un·a·ware·ly, adverb
- un·a·ware·ness, noun
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How to use unaware in a sentence
In a statement, the Postal Service said it was “unaware of any significant delays or issues” in Butler County and was in touch with election officials.
Pennsylvania emerges as likely hot spot for voting disputes and legal challenges after Election Day | Derek Hawkins, Michelle Lee, Jacob Bogage | October 30, 2020 | Washington PostSpokespeople for the organizations said they were unaware at the time of how officers could use it to shield their identities.
How Cops Who Use Force and Even Kill Can Hide Their Names From the Public | by Kenny Jacoby, USA Today and Ryan Gabrielson, ProPublica | October 29, 2020 | ProPublicaFor those unaware, Instagram Stories are the short, disappearing videos or photos people send to their friends on Facebook’s photo-and-video sharing service.
Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield on Zoom, growth, and the changing nature of work | jonathanvanian2015 | October 27, 2020 | FortunePresumably, whoever is designing the algorithm is unaware of the racial consequence of this single-minded focus on profitability.
AI has exacerbated racial bias in housing. Could it help eliminate it instead? | Katie McLean | October 20, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewHe stated that GLAA incorrectly gave him a “0” rating on grounds that he had not returned the questionnaire and the LGBTQ group was unaware of his views on LGBTQ issues.
GLAA again revises rating for D.C. Council candidate | Lou Chibbaro Jr. | October 19, 2020 | Washington Blade
In America, however, there is a stubborn strain of vacuous unawareness that reflects no credit on American society.
Reagan harbored strong ideological convictions, but an astonishing unawareness of basic facts.
At school he heard the same incessant war-talk, and found the same fundamental unawareness of the meaning of the war.
The Marne | Edith WhartonTheir very aloofness from the world—its unawareness of their story's existence made for the perfection of all they felt.
Robin | Frances Hodgson BurnettSo that when Madame von Marwitz sought to quell him she found herself met with a gentle unawareness, even a gentle indifference.
Tante | Anne Douglas SedgwickBut still more responsible for their unawareness was the educational system in which they were reared.
Medieval People | Eileen Edna PowerThe rejuvenating effects of sleep are due to man's temporary unawareness of body and breathing.
Autobiography of a YOGI | Paramhansa Yogananda
British Dictionary definitions for unaware
/ (ˌʌnəˈwɛə) /
(postpositive) not aware or conscious (of): unaware of the danger, he ran across the road
not fully cognizant of what is going on in the world: he's the most unaware person I've ever met
a variant of unawares
Derived forms of unaware
- unawarely, adverb
- unawareness, noun
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