UNWITTINGLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unwittingly mean? 

• UNWITTINGLY (adverb)
  The adverb UNWITTINGLY has 1 sense:

1. without knowledge or intention

  Familiarity information: UNWITTINGLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNWITTINGLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without knowledge or intention

Synonyms:

inadvertently; unknowingly; unwittingly

Context example:

he unwittingly deleted the references

Antonym:

wittingly (with full knowledge and deliberation)

Pertainym:

unwitting (not done with purpose or intent)

 Context examples 

"How do you mean?" Martin asked unwittingly.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Kind stranger, answered the pilgrim, you have unwittingly spoken words which are very grievous to me to listen to.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Unwittingly, his hand rattled the door-latch.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I looked at the old house from the corner of the street, but did not go nearer to it, lest, being observed, I might unwittingly do any harm to the design I had come to aid.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Of this offence Buck was unwittingly guilty, and the first knowledge he had of his indiscretion was when Sol-leks whirled upon him and slashed his shoulder to the bone for three inches up and down.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

But no hint to that effect escaping him and his countenance becoming more overcast, I suddenly remembered that I might have been all wrong, and was perhaps playing the fool unwittingly; and I began gently to withdraw myself from his arms—but he eagerly snatched me closer.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Unwittingly, Ruth herself proved his point that she worshipped the established.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But I am not prepared, he went on, to deny—perhaps I may have been, without knowing it, in some degree prepared to admit—that I may have unwittingly ensnared that lady into an unhappy marriage.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Tongue-tied by inexperience and by excess of ardor, wooing unwittingly and awkwardly, Martin continued his approach by contact.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He walked at the other's heels with a swing to his shoulders, and his legs spread unwittingly, as if the level floors were tilting up and sinking down to the heave and lunge of the sea.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)