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unsuspecting
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gullible |
| Synonyms: | confiding, credulous, easy, inexperienced, ingenuous, innocent, naive, off guard, simple, swallowing, taken in, trustful, trusting, unconscious, undoubting, unsuspicious, unwarned, unwary |
| Antonyms: | conscious, expecting, knowing, realizing, suspecting |
| Main Entry: | gullible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | naive, trusting |
| Synonyms: | being a sucker, believing, biting, credulous, easily taken in, easy mark, falling hook line and sinker, foolish, green*, innocent, kidding oneself, mark*, silly, simple, sucker, susceptible, swallowing whole, taken in, taking the bait, trustful, tumbling for, unskeptical, unsophisticated, unsuspecting, wide-eyed |
| Antonyms: | astute, discerning, knowledgeable, perceptive, suspicious, unbelieving, untrusting, wise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ignorant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unaware, unknowing |
| Synonyms: | apprenticed, benighted, birdbrained, blind to, cretinous, dense, green*, illiterate, imbecilic, in the dark, inexperienced, innocent, insensible, mindless, misinformed, moronic, naive, nescient, oblivious, obtuse, shallow, thick, unconscious, unconversant, uncultivated, uncultured, uneducated, unenlightened, uninformed, uninitiated, unintellectual, unknowledgeable, unlearned, unlettered, unmindful, unread, unschooled, unsuspecting, untaught, untrained, unwitting, witless |
| Notes: | stupid refers to lack of ability while ignorant refers to lack of knowledge |
| Antonyms: | aware, competent, educated, intelligent, knowledgeable, literate, talented, wise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | naive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | childlike, trusting |
| Synonyms: | aboveboard, artless, callow, candid, confiding, countrified, credulous, forthright, frank, fresh, green*, guileless, gullible, harmless, ignorant, impulsive, ingenuous, innocent, innocuous, instinctive, jejune, lamb, like a babe in the woods, natural, open, original, patsy, plain, simple, simple-minded, sincere, spontaneous, square, sucker, unaffected, unjaded, unpretentious, unschooled, unsophisticated, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, untaught, unworldly, virgin, wide-eyed |
| Antonyms: | experienced, leery, skeptical, wise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | off-guard |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unprepared |
| Synonyms: | asleep, asleep on the job, daydreaming, flat-footed, inattentive, napping, spaced out, unalert, unready, unsuspecting, unvigilant, unwatchful, zoned out |
| Main Entry: | trusting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | trustful |
| Synonyms: | believing, confiding, credulous, gullible, innocent, naive, undoubting, unquestioning, unsuspecting, unsuspicious |
| Main Entry: | unadvised |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not smart; careless |
| Synonyms: | brash, hasty, heedless, hot-headed, ignorant, ill-advised, imprudent, in the dark, inadvisable, incautious, inconsiderate, indiscreet, injudicious, rash, reckless, thoughtless, unaware, unconsidered, uninformed, unknowing, unsuspecting, unwarned, unwary, unwise |
| Antonyms: | advised, wise |
| Main Entry: | unaware |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ignorant |
| Synonyms: | blind, careless, caught napping, daydreaming, deaf, deaf to, doped, forgetful, heedless, in a daze, inattentive, incognizant, inconversant, insensible, mooning, negligent, nescient, not all there, not cognizant, oblivious, out cold, out of it, out to lunch, spacey, unacquainted, unconcerned, unconscious, unenlightened, unfamiliar, uninformed, uninstructed, unknowing, unmindful, unsuspecting, unwitting |
| Notes: | unaware is an adjective that means 'not being aware of something' and unawares is an adverb meaning 'by surprise; unexpectedly' |
| Antonyms: | aware, cognizant, informed, knowing, suspicious |
| Main Entry: | unwary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thoughtless, heedless |
| Synonyms: | brash, careless, credulous, hasty, ignorant, ill-advised, impetuous, imprudent, incautious, inconsiderate, indiscreet, negligent, rash, reckless, unadvised, unalert, uncircumspect, unguarded, unprepared, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, unvigilant, unwatchful |
| Antonyms: | cautious, heeding, mindful, thoughtful, wary |
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