Unwoke
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Unwoke is an adjective meaning (colloquial, chiefly Canada, US) Not woke, especially in social justice contexts.
Meaning
(colloquial, chiefly Canada, US) Not woke, especially in social justice contexts.
More Meanings
- (transitive, informal) To remove woke or socially progressive influence from (something); to make unwoke.
- (archaic, poetic) Not having been woken.
Example Sentences
It would of course be premature to declare that Swinney's policy reset amounts to the "unwoking" of the Scottish government.
After a call with White House officials and a logo change earlier this week, the company unwoked itself to President Trump's liking.
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'."
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.”
Word Forms
- un-woke
- unwokes
- unwoking
- unwoked
Synonyms for unwoke
Depending on context, synonyms include dewokify, unwoken.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include un-woke, unwoken, unawaked, unawoken, unwakened, unawakened.
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