wittingly
4
7.5
- adverb
- /ˈwɪtɪŋli/
:
intencionadamente
- He wittingly shared the confidential information during the meeting.
- wittingly or unwittingly
Can we have a vote on them if they're intentionally and wittingly concealed from us?
- Can we have a vote on them if they're intentionally and wittingly concealed from us?
Examples
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For such a claim shows contempt for God, wittingly or not, by claiming for yourself something that belongs to God alone.
Blog text (5) -
Wittingly or not, by keeping geopolitics center stage, USIA helps dramatize the need for support from alternative sources.
Academic text (1993) -
Our main problem, however, our most dangerous enemy for the time being, whether wittingly or not, is the West.
Blog text (8) -
We who stand at the front of the class are, wittingly or not, modeling democracy.
Academic text (2016) -
Clearly, however, in any situation of the sort I have described, each person involved, wittingly or unwittingly, plays a role.
Academic text (1993) -
At worst, wittingly or unwittingly, they can become part of a national lie.
Academic text (1990) -
Indeed, these organizations derive support from many voices in the United States who wittingly or not relay their messages.
Academic text (1990) -
Yes, there's some indication that she may have been wittingly or unwittingly involved in those crimes.
Blog text (20) -
Every president since Truman has wittingly or unwittingly operated within this strategic paradigm.
Academic text (2003) -
Military leaders of Pakistan seem to emulate, wittingly or not, the Kemalist model of legitimization without its secularist core.
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
320
3.7
To do something on purpose and with care
254
1.6
By choice, not by accident
155
3.1
In a way that someone does something on purpose, not by accident
76
3.9
In a way that shows you know and do it on purpose
72
3.5
To do something on purpose
31
3.9
To act in a determined way to reach a clear goal
2
3.9
Carefully and with full attention to what you do
1
7.7
On purpose to say or do something
1
7.3
In a way that shows a person wants to say something without words
Antonyms
How Intentional
Surface Forms
Morphology
wittingly = witting (transparent) = wit + ing + ly
The word 'wittingly' is a clear adverbial form of 'witting', meaning 'done with knowledge and intent'.
Etymology
Wittingly comes from the old English root wit meaning 'to know', and the -ly part turns it into an adverb. So to do something wittingly is to do it 'with full knowledge' or 'on purpose'.