inadvertent
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6.6
- adjective
- /ˌɪnədˈvɜːrtənt/
:
involuntario
- I understand your heroism was quite inadvertent.
- inadvertent exposure
- inadvertent stringency
- inadvertent war
And this forgetting, active and inadvertent is what I want to talk about today, this amnesia.
- And this forgetting, active and inadvertent is what I want to talk about today, this amnesia.
- And these authors have argued that that is actually partly result of an inadvertent ban on cousin marriage by the Catholic Church.
- Yeah, I believe is an inadvertent fart.
- It's exactly what I needed and it'll be inadvertent, which is, Long story short, on that.
- I think engagement, interaction, some protocols to avoid them inadvertent disasters is actually needed.
- So you're you've been possibly an inadvertent subject in in one person lost in the mall type of study.
Examples
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The result can be inadvertent damage to a nerve that has not been identified.
Academic text (1996) -
I think engagement, interaction, some protocols to avoid them inadvertent disasters is actually needed.
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His inadvertent role in what happened to you was the greatest regret of his life.
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Let's call it an inadvertent disclosure.
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What do we do with those species which are threatened by the inadvertent recovery of natural vegetation?
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How one man's life can have such a powerful effect, however inadvertent, on the lives of so many others.
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What the lawyer does with the interview can result in an inadvertent waiver.
Academic text (2003) -
But Spanish colonization also caused equally negative, albeit inadvertent, changes that impacted the local populations in profound ways.
Academic text (1994) -
Efforts to improve pasture on the smaller properties by planting nonnative grasses led to the inadvertent introduction of invasive weeds.
Academic text (2008) -
He made an inadvertent mistake while writing his report, which affected his final grade.
Synonyms
118
3.0
Happening by chance and not planned
108
4.1
Not aware of what you do or not acting on purpose
53
4.1
Not planned and not done on purpose
26
4.1
Happening by accident
25
3.5
Happening by chance without getting ready first
17
6.7
Not aware of what is happening and not done on purpose
2
7.5
Happening without being planned or thought about first
Not planned or done on purpose
Doing something without thinking, often as a habit
Antonyms
How Unintentional
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Inadvertent comes from in- 'not' plus a root like advert that meant 'turn toward' or 'pay attention'. So inadvertent is like 'not turned toward' something, which is why it means 'not done on purpose' or 'by accident'.