unintentional
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4.1
- adjective
- /ˌʌnɪnˈtɛnʃənl/
:
involuntario
- I mistakenly bought Sprite instead of ginger ale, and that was the unintentional mistake.
- unintentional injuries
- unintentional bias
- unintentional death
That was that was an unintentional but quite good link there.
- That was that was an unintentional but quite good link there.
- And you could say that it started out with unintentional decluttering.
- I read my book and honestly had a really nice unintentional little social media break.
- But yeah, I'm seeing right now a huge push back against unseen, unintentional drinking.
- And that to me is, is it's really simple, but it is very hard to do for people that are unintentional about their emotional life.
- An unconscious, unintentional rumination over the events of the past.
- The major threat to oceanic manta rays is commercial fishing, both because they're targets and unintentional bycatch.
- The top comment on this one is if you tell your partner that something hurts you and they keep doing it, it's no longer unintentional..
- It makes me sad to think how many people perceive the world in a way that is so like unintentional, so non agentic.
- But he has that wherever he is, chaos follows, whether it's intentional or unintentional.
Examples
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The mistake was an unintentional oversight that he quickly corrected.
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People have got this unintentional way of disrespecting people or making them feel outcasted.
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I read my book and honestly had a really nice unintentional little social media break.
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Many of these unintentional injuries occur during sports, but even more occur during other activities.
Academic text (2011) -
When this is included, the problem of unintentional submission instead of saving should be eliminated.
Academic text (1996) -
Women further explained that attention received for height was generally consequential and unintentional in social situations.
Academic text (2013) -
The net result, although perhaps unintentional, was a fairly objective news program despite the political turmoil.
Academic text (1993) -
It was purely unintentional, I assure you.
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I like to think she left behind her recipe cards as a gesture of goodwill, but it was most likely an unintentional oversight.
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She made an unintentional error on her application form that affected her chances.
Synonyms
118
3.0
Happening by chance and not planned
73
5.4
Not done on purpose and not under a person's control
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4.1
Not planned and not done on purpose
25
3.5
Happening by chance without getting ready first
17
6.7
Not aware of what is happening and not done on purpose
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6.6
Not done on purpose and happening by accident
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5.1
Happening only by chance and not planned
Not planned or done on purpose
Doing something without thinking, often as a habit
Occurs without a person's control and not on purpose, like a sudden laugh
Antonyms
How Intentional
Surface Forms
Morphology
unintentional = intentional (transparent) = un + intent + ional
A simple negative prefix 'un-' added to the adjective 'intentional' yields the clear opposite meaning 'not intentional'.
Etymology
Unintentional starts with un- meaning 'not' and uses intent meaning 'plan' or 'purpose'. So unintentional means 'not done on purpose', something that happens by accident.