unwitting
adjective/ʌnˈwɪtɪŋ/
/ʌnˈwɪtɪŋ/
[only before noun]- not aware of what you are doing or of the situation you are involved in
- He became an unwitting accomplice in the crime.
- She was the unwitting cause of the argument.
- They had been made unwitting tools of the regime.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryUnwitting is used with these nouns:- accomplice
- victim
Word OriginOld English unwitende ‘not knowing or realizing’ (from un- and wit ‘have knowledge’).
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