2026

Unwoke

Definitions

adj

1
Not having been woken.
2
Not woke, especially in social justice contexts.
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).

1
To remove woke or socially progressive influence from (something); to make unwoke.
It would of course be premature to declare that Swinney's policy reset amounts to the "unwoking" of the Scottish government.

Word Origin

From un- + woke.

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adj

1
Not having been woken.
2
Not woke, especially in social justice contexts.
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).

1
To remove woke or socially progressive influence from (something); to make unwoke.
It would of course be premature to declare that Swinney's policy reset amounts to the "unwoking" of the Scottish government.

Word Origin

From un- + woke.

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