unwitting

adj.

1. Not knowing; unaware: an unwitting subject in an experiment.
2. Not intended; unintentional: an unwitting admission of guilt.

[Middle English : un-, not; see un–¹ + witting, present participle of witten, to know (from Old English witan).]

unwittingly un·wit'ting·ly adv.

adjective

1. Not aware or informed: ignorant, innocent, oblivious, unacquainted, unaware, unconscious, unenlightened, unfamiliar, uninformed, unknowing. Idioms: in the dark. See knowledge/ignorance.
2. Not intended: inadvertent, undesigned, undevised, unintended, unintentional, unmeant, unplanned. See planned/unplanned.

adj

Definition: without fully realizing
Antonyms: conscious, intentional, realizing, witting

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IN BRIEF: Not intended.

I made an unwitting remark which hurt my friend's feelings.

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - uforvarende, ubevidst, uafvidende

Nederlands (Dutch)
onbedoeld, onbewust

Français (French)
adj. - involontaire

Deutsch (German)
adj. - unabsichtlich, ahnungslos, unwissentlich

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - ακούσιος, χωρίς πρόθεση, αγνοών, άθελος, χωρίς επίγνωση

Italiano (Italian)
involontario

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - inconsciente, involuntário

Русский (Russian)
нечаянный, не знающий (чего-л.)

Español (Spanish)
adj. - involuntario, hecho sin querer, inadvertido

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - oavsiktlig, omedveten, ofrivillig, ovetande, aningslös

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
不知情的, 不知不觉的, 无意识的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 不知情的, 不知不覺的, 無意識的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 알지 못하는, 무의식의, 고의가 아닌

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 知らない, 意識しない, 知らず知らずの, 覚えのない

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) بلا تعمد, عن غير قصد‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮לא מודע למצב, לא בכוונה, לא יודע, לא שם לב, מתעלם מ-‬

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