Synonyms of unwitting

unwitting

adjective

ˌən-ˈwi-tiŋ 

1

as in accidental

happening by chance

an unwitting mistake made in copying the material

Synonyms & Similar Words

• accidental
• inadvertent
• chance
• unexpected
• unintended
• unintentional
• incidental
• casual
• fortuitous
• unplanned
• unpremeditated
• odd
• flukey
• random
• arbitrary
• fluky
• coincidental
• unforeseen
• haphazard
• freak
• aimless
• unconscious
• uncertain
• unforeseeable
• desultory
• involuntary
• forced
• coerced
• unprompted

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• deliberate
• intended
• intentional
• calculated
• premeditated
• inevitable
• planned
• certain
• destined
• set
• predictable
• sure
• fixed
• foreseeable
• foreseen
• expected
• prescribed
• conscious
• wilful
• premeditative
• predetermined
• prepense
• voluntary
• willful
• volunteer
• knowing
• preordained
• predestined
• unforced
• foreordained
• freewill

2

as in unaware

not informed about or aware of something

an unwitting accomplice to the crime

Synonyms & Similar Words

• unaware
• oblivious
• ignorant
• unknowing
• uninformed
• unconscious
• clueless
• unmindful
• in the dark
• innocent
• incognizant
• unacquainted
• nescient
• uneducated
• insensible
• untaught
• unschooled
• inattentive
• heedless
• absent
• absentminded
• abstracted
• inconscient

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• aware
• conscious
• informed
• acquainted
• knowing
• cognizant
• mindful
• grounded
• conversant
• taught
• hip
• witting
• knowledgeable
• up-to-date
• educated
• sensitive
• observant
• plugged-in
• sentient
• schooled
• au courant
• heedful

Examples of unwitting in a Sentence

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