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Meaning of unwoke | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. Not having been woken.
    archaic, not-comparable, poetic
  2. Not woke, especially in social justice contexts.
    Canada, US, colloquial, not-comparable

Examples

“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).”
“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.””

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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