UNAWARE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unaware mean? 

• UNAWARE (adjective)
  The adjective UNAWARE has 1 sense:

1. (often followed by 'of') not aware

  Familiarity information: UNAWARE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNAWARE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(often followed by 'of') not aware

Synonyms:

incognizant; unaware

Context example:

the most unaware person I've known

Similar:

oblivious; unmindful ((followed by 'to' or 'of') lacking conscious awareness of)

out of it (unaware as a result of being uninformed)

unconscious ((followed by 'of') not knowing or perceiving)

unsuspecting ((often followed by 'of') not knowing or expecting; not thinking likely)

Also:

asleep (in a state of sleep)

unwitting (not aware or knowing)

unconscious (not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead)

insensible (incapable of physical sensation)

Attribute:

awareness; cognisance; cognizance; consciousness; knowingness (having knowledge of)

Antonym:

aware ((sometimes followed by 'of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception)

Derivation:

unawareness (unconsciousness resulting from lack of knowledge or attention)

 Context examples 

He could see to read, now, and he was unaware of the pain of the action.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

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.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

However, scientists were previously unaware of how aerosols might develop in hot Jupiter atmospheres.

(Cooking up Alien Atmospheres on Earth, NASA)

A characteristic of experiment design in which one or more groups involved (receiving, administering, or evaluating intervention) are unaware of which intervention any particular subject is receiving.

(Blinded, NCI Thesaurus)

“Humphrey Van Weyden,” she concluded; then added with a sigh of relief, and unaware that she had glanced that relief at Wolf Larsen, “I am so glad.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Men gasped and began to breathe again, unaware that for a moment they had ceased to breathe.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

But White Fang was unaware of it.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The use of special drugs called sedatives to relieve extreme suffering by making a patient calm, unaware, or unconscious.

(Palliative sedation, NCI Dictionary)

Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

A method of studying a drug or procedure in which both the subjects and investigators are kept unaware of who is actually getting which specific treatment.

(Double Blind Study, NCI Thesaurus)