unwoke

English

Alternative forms

• un-woke

Etymology

From un- +‎ woke.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

unwoke (not comparable)

1. (archaic, poetic) Not having been woken.
2. (colloquial, chiefly Canada, US) Not woke, especially in social justice contexts.
   • 2018 May 5, Margo Jefferson, “No Cinderella: Margo Jefferson on the real Meghan Markle”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     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).

   • 2022 June 2, Nate Hochman, “What Comes After the Religious Right?”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     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.”