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# unknowing

«unknowing» in Mova's school dictionary: **not knowing or not aware of what is happening, often of…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (unknowing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Unknowing means not knowing or not aware of what is happening, often of something important. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unknowing/#m1)

2) An unknowing helper does something without realising what it is part of. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unknowing/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and mysteries: an unknowing victim, an unknowing helper, unknowing of danger. In science: germs can be spread by unknowing carriers. It tells the reader a character does not know what the reader knows (dramatic irony). The adverb «unknowingly» is very common.

### examples

- The unknowing guard let the thief into the castle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unknowing/#x1)
- She was unknowing of the surprise party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unknowing/#x2)
- Germs can be spread by unknowing people with no symptoms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unknowing/#x3)
- The unknowing fish swam towards the hook. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unknowing/#x4)
- He unknowingly took the wrong bag home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unknowing/#x5)
- The cat sat unknowing on the remote control. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unknowing/#x6)

### note

Close to «unaware» and «unwitting». The adverb is «unknowingly». Different from «unknown» (not known to others).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «unknowing» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unknowing/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.