unwoke
unwoke adjective: not having been woken.
Adjective
unwoke (not comparable)
- Not having been woken.
- 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
- Today’s culture war is being waged not between religion and secularism but between groups that the Catholic writer Matthew Schmitz has described as “the woke and the unwoke.”2022 June 2, Nate Hochman, “What Comes After the Religious Right?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
Verb
unwoke (third-person singular simple present unwokes, present participle unwoking, simple past and past participle unwoked)
- To remove woke or socially progressive influence from (something); to make unwoke.
- It would of course be premature to declare that Swinney's policy reset amounts to the "unwoking" of the Scottish government.2024 May 12, Iain Macwhirter, “John Swinney is following votes by 'unwoking' SNP”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Jun 2024
- Kahn put it more bluntly, saying "this is wielding a sledgehammer in a crowded restaurant: 'We've decided CBS is too woke — and we're going to unwoke it'."2025 July 30, Daniel Thomas, Christopher Grimes, Anna Nicolaou, James Fontanella-Khan, quoting Gabriel Kahn, “Paramount deal thrusts David Ellison into Trump’s war with US media”, in Financial Times...
Synonyms of unwoke
Forms of unwoke
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | un-woke |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | unwokes |
| present participle | unwoking |
| past participle | unwoked |
| past | unwoked |
Origin of unwoke
From un- + woke.
Questions about unwoke
- What does unwoke mean?
- Unwoke means not having been woken.
- What part of speech is unwoke?
- Unwoke can be an adjective or a verb.
Words near unwoke in the dictionary
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