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unwoke

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From un- + woke.

adjective un-woke

archaic, not comparable, poetic Not having been woken.
Canada, US, colloquial, not comparable 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).

verb unwokes · unwoking · unwoked · un-woke

informal, transitive 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.
Similar: dewokify, unwoken

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@misc{unwoke_2026,
  title = {unwoke},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/unwoke},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}