Unwary

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Unwary \Un*wa"ry\, a. [Cf. {Unware}.]
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     1. Not vigilant against danger; not wary or cautious;
        unguarded; precipitate; heedless; careless.
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     2. Unexpected; unforeseen; unware. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  unwary
       adj : 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"- O.J.Campbell [ant: {wary}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  97 Moby Thesaurus words for "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