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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unaware
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
seemingly unaware/oblivious (=seeming not to notice something)
▪ She was seemingly unaware of all the activity around her.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
apparently
▪ He is apparently unaware of the preceding action, so that the significance of his observations is lost upon him.
▪ The man slid into her chair, still talking, apparently unaware she had ever been there.
▪ Within five minutes all six eels were loose in the aquarium, apparently unaware of the drastic difference in water conditions.
▪ Hoare was apparently unaware that the account - in the name of Islamische Antiquitäten - had been set up by James.
blissfully
▪ As the fire shed its microscopic radioactive dust over their houses and gardens, they continued to walk about, blissfully unaware.
▪ Meanwhile over the top sings Mel, clearer and truer than before, apparently blissfully unaware of the unholy mayhem beneath her.
▪ Except my bloody husband, who is still blissfully unaware of this man's existence, let alone his identity.
▪ The rest of the cast seemed blissfully unaware of his absence, and not one questioned her about her own disappearance.
▪ It was none other than the heir to the throne, blissfully unaware, and convulsed with mirth.
completely
▪ Feeling the solid flesh beneath his fingers he felt himself harden, completely unaware that Michael was planning his demise.
▪ He could hear the old man rummaging in there, completely unaware that things were now somehow turned in the wrong direction.
▪ In other words, we are completely unaware of them, usually because our mind is somewhere else.
▪ Yet, without the key provided by Esotericism, mankind in general is completely unaware of that destiny.
▪ Until he saw this phenomenon in the mirror, he had been completely unaware of it.
▪ I was below, completely unaware of this near miss.
▪ She was completely unaware of him.
▪ She would remain like that for a while, lost in her own little world, completely unaware of his presence.
largely
▪ Like gesture, this may be consciously controlled or it may be something of which we are largely unaware.
▪ More rarely, however, have those between the same sheets remained largely unaware of their intimate if odd companionship.
▪ The Church is perhaps largely unaware of its influence and its potential.
▪ That we remain largely unaware of this when we look is testament to his skill.
▪ But then many humans are largely unaware of their own mind, let alone that of others.
▪ Most people outside a particular profession are largely unaware of its basic features.
▪ First, many employers were until recently largely unaware of the changes taking place in the labour market.
often
▪ It has become so much a part of them that they are often unaware of its existence.
▪ Pool operators were often unaware of their responsibilities to report accidents and dangerous occurrences to their local authority.
quite
▪ I can not believe that you were quite unaware of my growing affection for you.
▪ But already he was sweeping past her, heading for the door, quite unaware of her inner anguish.
▪ He said this knowing that the architects were designing for a larger site quite unaware that only a portion had been authorized.
▪ Indeed, he was quite unaware of her frenzy and mildly loved her.
▪ So intense is the chameleon's concentration that it is quite unaware of imminent danger.
▪ The patient was also quite unaware that he had been rubbing his chest just prior to fainting.
▪ They were quite unaware that Herbert Chapman, two hundred miles away in Huddersfield, knew what was going on.
▪ Dianne was quite unaware of my sickening misgivings at the Bad Step and rightly so.
seemingly
▪ Nowadays he is a sanctimonious old man seemingly unaware of his own involvement in the problems of his family.
▪ The casual lawyer is telling his story somberly seemingly unaware of any of the hubbub around us.
▪ She turned the page with elegant fingers, seemingly unaware that Frankie had entered the room.
▪ He has grown reclusive in recent years, seemingly unaware that he is no longer under house arrest.
totally
▪ Clients are often totally unaware of how negatively they may be talking to themselves, anticipating failure and minimizing success.
▪ And the speaker may be totally unaware of laying a trap.
▪ If you are feeling tense, you can be totally unaware of how tense.
▪ The enemy should be totally unaware of their arrival.
▪ She brushed away the tear that she'd been totally unaware was slowly trickling down her face.
▪ She couldn't believe that the parents were totally unaware of their daughter's remarkable talents.
▪ He wasn't brave or courageous - just totally unaware of fear in times of crisis.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But Jack was not unaware of what was hiding and where.
▪ Even Republican governors, who had gathered here to give the candidate advice on Tuesday, were unaware of the decision.
▪ I can not believe that you were quite unaware of my growing affection for you.
▪ If you are unaware, Sports Illustrated is the United States' leading weekly sports magazine, with over 3.25 million subscribers.
▪ Jurors in the case of Dalton Prejean were unaware of his long-term mental problems when sentencing him to death.
▪ The last of the trees fell away behind him, the lake rushed forwards below, the shelduck dabbled on unaware.
▪ This pleasure is voyeuristic when it is dependent on the object of this gaze being unaware, not looking back.
▪ Truly unaware, some brazenly buttoned their flies as they walked out of the lavatory into the corridor.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unaware

Unaware \Un`a*ware"\, adv. Unawares. [Poetic]
--Dryden.

Unaware

Unaware \Un`a*ware"\, a. Not aware; not noticing; giving no heed; thoughtless; inattentive.
--Swift.

Related phrases:
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unaware

1590a; see unawares.

Wiktionary
unaware

a. 1 not aware or informed; lacking knowledge 2 Not noticing; paying no heed; thoughtless; inattentive.

WordNet
unaware

  1. adj. (often followed by `of') not aware; "seemed unaware of the scrutiny"; "unaware of the danger they were in"; "unaware of the newborn hope"; "the most unaware person I've known" [ant: aware(p)]

  2. not aware or knowing; "an unwitting subject in an experiment" [syn: unwitting] [ant: witting]

  3. (often followed by `of') lacking knowledge or awareness; "incognizant of the new political situation" [syn: incognizant] [ant: cognizant]

Wikipedia
Unaware

Unaware is a science-fiction horror thriller film directed by Sean Bardin and Robert Cooley. It follows a vacationing couple who discover something disturbing on a rural Texas ranch. Like the films Paranormal Activity (2007) and The Blair Witch Project (1999), Unaware is an independent feature presented in " found footage" format. The producers have also followed in marketing the film to potential fans via Eventful.

Usage examples of "unaware".

Outside, the happy and contented citizens of the accommodating world of New Riviera went about their daily concerns, unaware that in an ordinary hotel room not far from where they were walking and talking, a most unusual quartet was calmly discussing Armageddon.

Vanyel chuckled, knowing the Archpriest was blissfully unaware of his relationship with Stefen.

Except for the tiny surge of sunlight, the crowd was unaware of its passage, but Rhapsody could see it, and she blew a kiss skyward.

To anyone unaware of the fire, Brambleberry Hall would appear as if it had stood unscathed through all the years of its existence.

She turned to face him, unaware the bustier had slipped and one of her full rounded breasts was now exposed.

The busyness of our lives, our relentless interests, concerns, hopes, frustrations, and fears take precedence, and on a day-to-day basis we are unaware of being linked to everything else.

His voice faded in midsentence as his eye happened to fall on a bit of scribbled marginalia that captured his attention and drew him down into his padded desk chair, where he was soon comparing notes he had made with passages in two open books, absorbed and quite unaware of my presence.

Most of the day the captain was locked in his stateroom with a mestiza woman, completely unaware that the boys in his charge were leaping around like monkeys in the rigging, risking skull fractures.

She was unaware that carbon monoxide gas had already slowed her reactions.

She was still unaware, just picking up on the excitement in the air-figuring the mousetrap competition had been announced.

Theatre and were now lying, surrounded by postoperative equipment--drainage tubes, suction pumps and the like--fighting, albeit unconsciously, for their lives, unaware that the nurses were fighting even harder.

Quite unaware of what thou dost contain, I prithee, comfort thy sweet self again, My last delight!

As he watched, knowing she was concentrating and unaware of his gaze, she pushed a strand of chestnut hair away from her face and narrowed her eyes with the effort of rethreading the bone needle.

But Sandel was tireless and unaware of limitations, and King grinned and doggedly endured.

Hardly daring to hope his trap would bring in a Shuhr this quickly, he gripped his duffel strap and forced himself to play the concerned but unaware husband, depending on Shel and Uri for protec-tion.