unsuspecting
unsuspecting adjective: not suspecting; without any suspicion.
Adjective
unsuspecting (comparative more unsuspecting, superlative most unsuspecting)
- Not suspecting; without any suspicion.
- He easily shot the unsuspecting target.
- One by one grotesque forms emerged from the jungle to creep stealthily upon the unsuspecting woman.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 193
unsuspecting meaning in Urdu, Malayalam, Kannada and Nepali
unsuspecting in Urdu
- Translations
- بے خبر be-xabar
unsuspecting in Malayalam
- unaware, unsus-picious, unwary
- സംശയിക്കാത്ത, നിസ്സംശയ, സംശയമില്ലാത്ത, നിസ്സന്ദേഹ, നിരാശങ്ക, സംശാലുവല്ലാത്ത
unsuspecting in Kannada
- ನಚ್ಚೆಣಿಸದ, ನಂಬಿದ
unsuspecting in Nepali
- शङ्काविहीन
More languagesFewer languages
- unsuspecting in Persian
- از همه جا بی خبر, بیخبر bi-xabar
Examples of unsuspecting in a sentence
- Before long, the unsuspecting salesman was earnestly pitching him "the quietest noisemaker on the market."1999 April 5, William Safire, “Essay; The Quiet Noisemaker”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 14 Sep 2017:
- To unsuspecting eyes these mongoose relatives can seem eminently pettable.2008 June 20, Edward Rothstein, “Critters of a Wondrous Isle, Meet Your Friend and Foe”, in The New York Times, archived from the original...
Forms of unsuspecting
| comparative | more unsuspecting |
|---|---|
| superlative | most unsuspecting |
Origin of unsuspecting
From un- + suspecting.
Words formed from unsuspecting
Questions about unsuspecting
- What does unsuspecting mean?
- Unsuspecting means not suspecting; without any suspicion.
- What is unsuspecting in Urdu?
- Unsuspecting in Urdu is بے خبر (be-xabar). See Unsuspecting meaning in Urdu.
- How do you use unsuspecting in a sentence?
- Before long, the unsuspecting salesman was earnestly pitching him "the quietest noisemaker on the market."
- What part of speech is unsuspecting?
- Unsuspecting is an adjective.
Words near unsuspecting in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: unsuspecting (page history and authors); unsuspecting (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); unsuspecting (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unsuspecting (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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