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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective unwary has 1 sense

• unwary(a = adj.all) Array - not alert to danger or deception; "the shrieks of unwary animals taken by surprise"; "some thieves prey especially on unwary travelers"; "seduce the unwary reader into easy acquiescence"
Derived form noun unwariness₁
Antonym: wary

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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

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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.

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