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un-woke

un-woke is the alternative form of unwoke.

Meaning of unwoke

Adjective

unwoke (not comparable)

  1. (archaic, poetic) Not having been woken.
  2. (Canada, US, colloquial) Not woke, especially in social justice contexts.
    • Finally, there came his involvement with Markle. […] a woman of colour and a feminist whose presence in his life would soon require that he forcefully denounce racism and sexism in the British press (and, I trust, among his more un-woke friends and relations).2018 May 5, Margo Jefferson, “No Cinderella: Margo Jefferson on the real Meghan Markle”, in The Guardian

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Questions about un-woke

What is un-woke the alternative form of?
Un-woke is the alternative form of unwoke.

Words near un-woke in the dictionary

  1. un-uninstallable
  2. un-unravelable
  3. un-untieable
  4. un-vegan
  5. un-with-it
  6. un-woke
  7. Una
  8. Una boat
  9. Una boats
  10. una corda
  11. una corda pedal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: un-woke (page history and authors); unwoke (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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