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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Not aware or cognizant.
  • adverb Unawares.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not aware; not heeding; heedless; unmindful: often used adverbially.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not aware; not noticing; giving no heed; thoughtless; inattentive.
  • adverb Poetic Unawares.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective not aware or informed; lacking knowledge

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective (often followed by `of') not aware

Etymologies

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un- +‎ aware

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