1 when not expected:
The camera had caught her unawares. * The announcement took me unawares. * She came upon him unawares when he was searching her room.
2 (formal) without noticing or realizing:
He slipped unawares into sleep.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for unawares is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is unawares a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, unawares is tagged as adverb.
Does unawares appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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