unwitting

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Unaware or uninformed; oblivious.
    — We've located the perfect site for experimentation on live test subjects. Kadara's "badlands" offer unsupervised access to unwitting test subjects free from any lawful or ethical constraints.
  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.

词形变化

more unwitting comparative most unwitting superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
unwittingly unwittingness
相关词
unweeting witting

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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