[
UK
/ʌnnˈəʊɪŋ/
]
[ US /ənˈnoʊɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ənˈnoʊɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs)
ADJECTIVE
-
unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge
he was completely ignorant of the circumstances
his rudeness was unwitting
an unknowledgeable assistant
How To Use unknowing In A Sentence
- I don't think I look pregnant to the unknowing eye (like I've always had this little paunch), but to those who do know it's there, it's really there.
- An unidentified pilot could be no more than a private aviator who unknowingly sends out a wrong signal on his transponder.
- In any case, Pang et al. may have unknowingly found an unstated risk for hospital birth of having a mildly premature baby.
- Then I realized it wasn't Gantry of whom I was reminded so much as another Lewis character, Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, the politician who poses as a populist, then once elected president turns the United States into a fascist dictatorship, aided by an angry, unknowing electorate and a paramilitary group called the Minute Men. Michael Winship: The Awful Price for Teaching Less Than We Know
- The face-off between the management and employees of the company began when a new worker unknowingly opened a window in an area where a steam machine is used to dry finished textile materials.
- Officials say he unknowingly sought help from an informant for the United States Drug Enforcement Administration. They say he believed this person had ties to Mexican drug groups.
- Twelve unknowing faces gazed back at me, not a smile or sign of brilliance on a one. THE WIDOW'S TRIAL
- The Spanish language even has a verb, sabadear, which refers to praying on the Sabbath, for the unknowing Christian assumed that the swaying motion of the Jew during the Amidah was a special part of the Sabbath prayer. Conversas.
- Faced with this depressing reality, a resentment is born and carefully nourished against the unknowing spouse for his failure to make frequent declarations of his appreciation and regard.
- The band's original drum kit she found being unknowingly used by a garage band in a barn. Times, Sunday Times