unknowingly
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4.2
- adverb
- /ʌnˈnoʊɪŋli/
- On the other hand, some older men and women unknowingly repeat stories to the class.
- knowingly or unknowingly
- Perhaps unknowingly
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Watch on YouTubeA lot of women struggle knowingly or unknowingly with being emotionally selfish.
- A lot of women struggle knowingly or unknowingly with being emotionally selfish.
- So I'm not only on the team with a man but also was unknowingly living with one.
- If you trim those things in many ways, knowingly or unknowingly, many of you are using this.
- The other is because I see a lot of people suffering from diseases that they don't understand and that unknowingly they're making worse.
- But I did also get tied up in unknowingly promoting well, what ended up being a scam, which I also feel bad about.
- And so this became the start, unknowingly, of a very, very difficult time in my real estate business and honestly in my life.
- But it's all these assumptions and actually you help perpetuate this stereotype unknowingly because you are doing what you think they want you to do.
- And I would who amongst us has not been in line and had somebody cut in front of you in line, sometimes willingly or, or unknowingly.
- I've unknowingly been like this marketing guy.
Examples
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So we're getting hit unknowingly and we're not voting for that.
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Along with the newspaper, he unknowingly hands over $8,000, which he was supposed to deposit.
Fiction book (1995) -
I just unknowingly committed a crime back there!
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That is because, unknowingly... I gave it a criminal brain.
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Alongside them live the Black employees, characters whose lives they unknowingly direct.
Academic text (2008) -
And so this became the start, unknowingly, of a very, very difficult time in my real estate business and honestly in my life.
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That video made me realize that I unknowingly broke up a natural friendship.
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So I mentioned that we kind of started this journey frankly unknowingly, but about a decade ago.
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We unknowingly take responsibility for everyone's happiness but our own.
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He unknowingly revealed his secret in front of his friends.
Synonyms
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1.4
In a way that is not planned and happens by mistake
64
5.2
Without meaning to do something
35
4.0
Without thinking or knowing you do something
29
3.4
Without meaning to
28
6.0
In a way you do not know you are doing
24
8.9
Something that happens without someone's knowledge
1
6.5
Not noticing what happens around you
1
5.9
Without thinking anything is wrong
Antonyms
How Aware
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unknowingly is made from the parts un- ('not'), the verb know, and -ly ('in a way'), so it means 'not knowing in a way'. That's why to do something unknowingly is to do it without being 'aware' or 'on purpose'.