Synonyms of witting

witting

adjective

ˈwi-tiŋ 

1

as in aware

having specified facts or feelings actively impressed on the mind

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• aware
• conscious
• cognizant
• mindful
• regardful
• apprehensive
• ware
• sentient
• sensible
• careful
• watchful
• alive
• wary
• vigilant
• cautious
• attentive
• observant
• heedful
• open-eyed
• wide-awake
• alert
• safe
• hyperconscious
• hyperaware

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• unconscious
• unaware
• unwitting
• oblivious
• unmindful
• insensible
• careless
• heedless
• inattentive
• mindless
• unguarded
• incautious
• unwary
• unheeding

2

as in deliberate

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 & Similar Words

• deliberate
• conscious
• voluntary
• intentional
• intended
• willed
• willful
• purposeful
• purposive
• knowing
• planned
• calculated
• thoughtful
• designed
• premeditated
• set
• reasoned
• advised
• volunteer
• optional
• considered
• weighed
• elective
• discretionary
• studied
• measured
• prepense
• premeditative

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• unwitting
• unintentional
• inadvertent
• random
• accidental
• incidental
• chance
• haphazard
• sudden
• aimless
• necessary
• impetuous
• desultory
• purposeless
• abrupt
• nondeliberate
• involuntary
• mandatory
• nonpurposive
• compulsory
• required
• forced
• obligatory
• spontaneous
• hit-or-miss
• instinctive
• casual
• ordered
• impulsive
• impromptu
• extemporaneous
• coerced
• nonelective
• unpremeditated
• unforced

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of witting

Harvey Weinstein built his complicity machine out of the witting, the unwitting and those in between. — Carina Chocano, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2018

Because the nature of the hostile foreign nation is well known, counterintelligence investigations tend to be centered on individuals the FBI suspects to be witting or unwitting agents of that foreign power. — Megan Friedman, Marie Claire, 7 June 2017