Definition of unknowingly in English:
unknowingly
adverb ʌnˈnəʊɪŋliˌənˈnoʊɪŋli
Without being aware of something; unintentionally.
every day, we are unknowingly exposed to a variety of pesticides
the Minister, perhaps unknowingly, misled Parliament
Example sentencesExamples
- He served his time with the Manhattan Project, unknowingly helping to develop the atomic bomb.
- The clinicians were unknowingly transmitting their attitudes towards the medication to their patients.
- The novice engraver wandered unknowingly into a scrapbooking store.
- Suddenly, he finds himself on the side of the labour union he's unknowingly been combating all along.
- His father's dying words have unknowingly directed his life.
Definition of unknowingly in US English:
unknowingly
adverbˌənˈnōiNGlēˌənˈnoʊɪŋli
Without being aware of something; unintentionally.
every day, we are unknowingly exposed to a variety of pesticides
the Minister, perhaps unknowingly, misled Parliament
Example sentencesExamples
- His father's dying words have unknowingly directed his life.
- Suddenly, he finds himself on the side of the labour union he's unknowingly been combating all along.
- The clinicians were unknowingly transmitting their attitudes towards the medication to their patients.
- He served his time with the Manhattan Project, unknowingly helping to develop the atomic bomb.
- The novice engraver wandered unknowingly into a scrapbooking store.