unknowing

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: un=know=ing

OXFORD DICTIONARY

unknowing, adj. & n.
--adj. (often foll. by of) not knowing; ignorant, unconscious.
--n. ignorance (cloud of unknowing).

Derivative

unknowingly adv. unknowingness n.

THESAURUS

unknowing

a stranger to, asleep, awkward, blankminded, blind to, callow, caught napping, dead to, deaf to, dumb, empty, empty-headed, gauche, green, groping, ignorant, impercipient, in ignorance of, inane, incognizant, inexperienced, innocent, insensible, insensible to, know-nothing, mindless, naive, napping, nescient, nonconceiving, not with it, out of it, raw, simple, strange to, tentative, unacquainted, unapprized, unaware, unaware of, uncomprehending, unconscious, unconscious of, unconversant, unenlightened, unfamiliar, unhearing, unilluminated, uninformed, uninitiated, uninsightful, uninstructed, unintelligent, unmindful, unmindful of, unperceiving, unposted, unprehensive, unrealizing, unripe, unseeing, unsure, unsuspecting, unversed, unwitting, vacuous, witless

ROGET THESAURUS

unknowing

Ignorance

N ignorance, nescience, tabula rasa, crass ignorance, ignorance crasse, unfamiliarity, unacquaintance, unconsciousness, darkness, blindness, incomprehension, inexperience, simplicity, unknown quantities, x, y, z, sealed book, terra incognita, virgin soil, unexplored ground, dark ages, smattering, sciolism, glimmering, dilettantism, bewilderment, incapacity, pedantry, charlatanry, charlatism, Philister, Philistine, ignorant, nescient, unknowing, unaware, unacquainted, unapprised, unapprized, unwitting, unweeting, unconscious, witless, weetless, a stranger to, unconversant, uninformed, uncultivated, unversed, uninstructed, untaught, uninitiated, untutored, unschooled, misguided, unenlightened, Philistine, behind the age, shallow, superficial, green, rude, empty, half-learned, illiterate, unread, uninformed, uneducated, unlearned, unlettered, unbookish, empty-headed, dizzy, wooly-headed, pedantic, in the dark, benighted, belated, blinded, blindfolded, hoodwinked, misinformed, au bout de son latin, at the end of his tether, at fault, at sea, caught tripping, unknown, unapprehended, unexplained, unascertained, uninvestigated, unexplored, unheard of, not perceived, concealed, novel, ignorantly, unawares, for anything, for aught one knows, not that one knows, Int, God knows, Heaven knows, the Lord knows, who knows, nobody knows, ignorance never settles a question, quantum animis erroris inest!, small Latin and less Greek, that unlettered small-knowing soul, there is no darkness but ignorance.