unwary

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: un=war=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

unwary, a. [Cf. Unware.].

•  Not vigilant against danger; not wary or cautious; unguarded; precipitate; heedless; careless.  [1913 Webster]
•  Unexpected; unforeseen; unware.  Spenser.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

unwary, adj.
1 not cautious.
2 (often foll. by of) not aware of possible danger etc.

Derivative

unwarily adv. unwariness n.

THESAURUS

unwary

artless, asleep, bluff, blunt, born yesterday, brash, brazen, brazenfaced, candid, careless, childlike, confiding, culpably negligent, derelict, direct, foolhardy, frank, goofing off, guileless, hasty, heedless, hotheaded, hubristic, ill-advised, improvident, imprudent, impudent, inadvertent, inattentive, incautious, inconsiderate, indiscreet, ingenu, ingenuous, injudicious, innocent, insolent, laissez-faire, lax, loose, mindless, naive, napping, neglectful, neglecting, negligent, nodding, noninterfering, nonrestrictive, off-guard, open, openhearted, outspoken, overbold, overcareless, overconfident, overly permissive, oversure, overweening, permissive, plain, procrastinating, rash, reckless, relaxed, remiss, scamping, simple, simplehearted, simpleminded, sincere, single-hearted, single-minded, skimping, slack, sleeping, slighting, slurring, temerarious, thoughtless, trustful, trusting, unadvised, unalert, uncautious, unchary, uncircumspect, unguarded, unprepared, unready, unreserved, unrigorous, unsophisticated, unthinking, unvigilant, unwatchful, unwise

ROGET THESAURUS

unwary

Neglect

N neglect, carelessness, trifling, negligence, omission, oversight, laches, default, supineness, inattention, nonchalance, imprudence, recklessness, slovenliness improvidence, noncompletion, inexactness, paralipsis, paralepsis, paraleipsis (in rhetoric), trifler, waiter on Providence, Micawber, neglecting, unmindful, negligent, neglectful, heedless, careless, thoughtless, perfunctory, remiss, feebleness, inconsiderate, uncircumspect, incircumspect, off one's guard, unwary, unwatchful, unguarded, offhand, supine, inattentive, insouciant, imprudent, reckless, slovenly inexact, improvident, neglected, unheeded, uncared-for, unperceived, unseen, unobserved, unnoticed, unnoted, unmarked, unattended to, unthought of, unregarded, unremarked, unmissed, shunted, shelved, unexamined, unstudied, unsearched, unscanned, unweighed, unsifted, unexplored, abandoned, buried in a napkin, hid under a bushel, negligently, hand over head, anyhow, in an unguarded moment, per incuriam, Int, never mind, no matter, let it pass, out of sight, out of mind.