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self-unaware

self-unaware adjective: not self-aware.

Adjective

self-unaware (comparative more self-unaware, superlative most self-unaware)

  1. Not self-aware.
    • The list could be compounded enormously, but from such and others like these, definitive interpretations of the plays in which they appear have been promulgated—postulating, say, a schizophrenic Iago, a self-dramatizing Othello, a paranoid Henry IV, a Benedick completely self-unaware, a pattern...1970, Eugene Paul Nassar, “Shakespeare’s Games with His Audience”, in The Rape of Cinderella: Essays in Literary Continuity, Bloomington, Ind.; London: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, Part I...
    • What are some of the self-unaware things leaders do that drive others nuts? (Let me get you started: talking over people, needing to have the last word, taking credit for other people’s ideas, “punishing” those who point out their mistakes . . . what else?)2013, Jodi Detrick, “Terra-Cotta Warriors; Leadership Quality: Self-Awareness”, in The Jesus-Hearted Woman: 10 Leadership Qualities for Enduring & Endearing Influence, Springfield, Mo.: Salubris...

Forms of self-unaware

comparativemore self-unaware
superlativemost self-unaware

Origin of self-unaware

From self- + unaware.

Questions about self-unaware

What does self-unaware mean?
Self-unaware means not self-aware.
What part of speech is self-unaware?
Self-unaware is an adjective.

Words near self-unaware in the dictionary

  1. self-tying
  2. self-unalive
  3. self-unalived
  4. self-unalives
  5. self-unaliving
  6. self-unaware
  7. self-unawareness
  8. self-unloader
  9. self-unloaders
  10. self-ventilated
  11. self-victimization

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