[
UK
/ˌʌnəwˈeə/
]
[ US /ˌənəˈwɛɹ/ ]
[ US /ˌənəˈwɛɹ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
(often followed by `of') not aware
unaware of the danger they were in
unaware of the newborn hope
the most unaware person I've known
seemed unaware of the scrutiny
How To Use unaware In A Sentence
- To assume that the Administration's critics are somehow unaware of, and uninfluenced by, this fact is to ignore a great deal of recent history.
- They are completely unaware of who this monument celebrates or what its significance is; yet the image's resonance is not lost on its audience.
- Other attendees were obviously quite unaware of what they had walked into. Times, Sunday Times
- Like the invitation to run together, he blurted out such things as if he were completely unaware of how they might be interpreted, with a guileless innocence that couldn't help but put me at ease.
- They should be addressing their messages to the bulk of the American public that is unaware of the consequences of US foreign policy, not to each other.
- Almost all non-functional programmers are unaware that tail calls facilitate a programming paradigm that they have never seen. Reddit.com: what's new online!
- Och, sad mishanter! On the stairs Pate bursts upon them unawares.
- The patient perceives a distorted reality but is usually unaware that he is ill.
- None rested quiet or mute for a second, except the one who kept close as his shadow to her father's side, and unwittingly was treated by him less like the other children, than like some stray spirit of another world, caught and held jealously, but without much outward notice, lest haply it might take alarm, and vanish back again unawares. John Halifax, Gentleman
- This is not something that people are unaware of. Times, Sunday Times