Usually means: Caught off guard; taken by surprise.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word unawares:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. unawares: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. unawares: Merriam-Webster
  3. unawares: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. unawares: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. unawares: Collins English Dictionary
  6. unawares: Vocabulary.com
  7. Unawares, unawares: Wordnik
  8. unawares: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. unawares: Wiktionary
  10. unawares: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. unawares: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. unawares: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. unawares: Dictionary.com
  14. unawares: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. unawares: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Unawares: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. unawares: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. unawares: Rhymezone
  19. Unawares: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. unawares: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. unawares: FreeDictionary.org
  22. unawares: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. unawares: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. unawares: Legal dictionary

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  1. unawares: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (unawares)

▸ adverb:  Unexpectedly or by surprise.
▸ adverb:  Inadvertently.
▸ adverb:  Without plan or forethought.

Similar:
short, unanticipatedly, unexpectingly, unanticipatingly, unwarely, unforeseeingly, unexpectantly, unforeseeably, unsuspectedly, unbeware, more...

Opposite:
deliberately, intentionally, on purpose

Types:
unsuspecting, unprepared, uninformed, ignorant, naive, more...

Phrases:
at unawares, take unawares, caught unawares, opposite of unawares, more...

Adjectives:
other, entertaining, many, old, false, little, public, english, british, young, quite


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Similar:
short, unanticipatedly, unexpectingly, unanticipatingly, unwarely, unforeseeingly, unexpectantly, unforeseeably, unsuspectedly, unbeware, more...

Opposite:
deliberately, intentionally, on purpose

Types:
unsuspecting, unprepared, uninformed, ignorant, naive, more...

Phrases:
at unawares, take unawares, caught unawares, opposite of unawares, more...

Adjectives:
other, entertaining, many, old, false, little, public, english, british, young, quite



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