unsuspecting
/ʌnsəˈspɛktɪŋ
/adjective
(Of a person or animal) not aware of the presence of danger; feeling no suspicion: anti-personnel mines lie in wait for their unsuspecting victims...
- Nevertheless, the pose would have been construed as ridiculous had it been of an unwary and unsuspecting adult.
- In this fantasy sequence, she is hardly, as the Crown insisted, an innocent, unsuspecting victim.
- He is going toward the house where we left the unsuspecting Hero.
Synonyms
unsuspicious, unwary, unaware, unconscious, off guard, ignorant, unknowing, unwitting, oblivious, heedless, unmindful;
trusting, trustful;
gullible, credulous, ingenuous, naive, innocent, dupable, easily deceived, easily taken in, exploitable
rare incognizant, nescient
Derivatives
unsuspectingly
- Your chosen lecturer will innocently and unsuspectingly assume that the constant attention they are receiving from you is due to your love for learning or perhaps that you have ADD.
- They unsuspectingly bestowed impunity upon me.
- There are the capricious gusts of sea wind that sweep in unsuspectingly, the cunning bunkers, the enigmatic kicks and bounces, the blatantly tormenting results.
unsuspectingness
- There is everywhere a fearful indifference to the things of God, everywhere an unconsciousness of His vicinity, an unsuspectingness that His marvellous interference was so near at hand.
- Are they driven by intrepidity, by unsuspectingness, or by some kind of vague hope?
- But you will acknowledge that the charming unsuspectingness of our friend has sometimes laid him open to attacks.