witting | Definition of witting

Synonyms and Antonyms of witting

1 having specified facts or feelings actively impressed on the mind

she was a witting partner; he had told her about the risk involved

Synonyms of witting

alive, apprehensive, aware, cognizant, conscious, mindful, sensible, sentient, ware

Words Related to witting

alert, attentive, careful, cautious, heedful, observant, open-eyed, regardful, safe, vigilant, wary, watchful, wide-awake

hyperaware, hyperconscious

Near Antonyms of witting

careless, heedless, inattentive, incautious, mindless, unguarded, unheeding, unwary

Antonyms of witting

insensible, oblivious, unaware, unconscious, unmindful, unwitting

2 made, given, or done with full awareness of what one is doing

your witting assistance in helping the robber escape makes you an accessory after the fact

Synonyms of witting

conscious, deliberate, intended, intentional, knowing, purposeful, purposive, set, voluntary, willed, willful (or wilful)

Words Related to witting

designed, planned

advised, calculated, considered, measured, reasoned, studied, thoughtful, weighed

premeditated, premeditative, prepense

discretionary, elective, optional, volunteer

Near Antonyms of witting

inadvertent, unwitting

accidental, chance, haphazard, hit-or-miss, incidental, random

aimless, desultory, purposeless

abrupt, impetuous, sudden

coerced, forced, involuntary

compulsory, mandatory, necessary, nonelective, obligatory, ordered, required

extemporaneous, impromptu, impulsive, instinctive, spontaneous, unforced, unpremeditated

Antonyms of witting

nondeliberate, nonpurposive, unintentional