unwoke

English

Alternative forms
  • un-woke

Etymology

From un- +‎ woke.

Adjective

unwoke (not comparable)

  1. (archaic, poetic) Not having been woken.
  2. (colloquial, chiefly Canada, US) Not woke; socially or politically oblivious.
    • 2018, Margo Jefferson, The Guardian, 5 May:
      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).
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