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witting

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of witting

1 having specified facts or feelings actively impressed on the mind

  • she was a witting partner; he had told her about the risk involved
Synonyms of witting

alive, apprehensive, aware, cognizant, conscious, mindful, sensible, sentient, ware
Words Related to witting

alert, attentive, careful, cautious, heedful, observant, open-eyed, regardful, safe, vigilant, wary, watchful, wide-awake

hyperaware, hyperconscious
Near Antonyms of witting

careless, heedless, inattentive, incautious, mindless, unguarded, unheeding, unwary
Antonyms of witting

insensible, oblivious, unaware, unconscious, unmindful, unwitting

2 made, given, or done with full awareness of what one is doing

  • your witting assistance in helping the robber escape makes you an accessory after the fact
Synonyms of witting

conscious, deliberate, intended, intentional, knowing, purposeful, purposive, set, voluntary, willed, willful (or wilful)
Words Related to witting

designed, planned

conscious

advised, calculated, considered, measured, reasoned, studied, thoughtful, weighed

premeditated, premeditative, prepense

discretionary, elective, optional, volunteer
Near Antonyms of witting

inadvertent, unwitting

accidental, chance, haphazard, hit-or-miss, incidental, random

aimless, desultory, purposeless

abrupt, impetuous, sudden

coerced, forced, involuntary

compulsory, mandatory, necessary, nonelective, obligatory, ordered, required

casual

extemporaneous, impromptu, impulsive, instinctive, spontaneous, unforced, unpremeditated
Antonyms of witting

nondeliberate, nonpurposive, unintentional

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