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English
Etymology
From unintentional + -ly.
Adverb
unintentionally (comparative more unintentionally, superlative most unintentionally)
- In an unintentional manner; not intentionally.
1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter V, in Jane Eyre, 1st edition, volume II, page 132:"Oh, no! Mason will not defy me; nor knowing it, will he hurt me—but, unintentionally, he might in a moment, by one careless word, deprive me, if not of life, yet for ever of happiness."
Antonyms
Translations
in an unintentional manner
- Arabic:
- South Levantine Arabic: عفوًا (ʕafwan)
- Catalan: involuntàriament
- Dutch: onbedoeld (nl)
- Finnish: sattumalta (fi), vahingossa (fi), epähuomiossa, erehdyksessä, huomaamatta
- French: involontairement (fr), inintentionnellement (fr)
- Galician: sen querer, involuntariamente (gl)
- German: unabsichtlich (de), unbeabsichtigt (de), ungewollt (de), unfreiwillig (de)
- Greek: άθελα (el) (áthela)
- Italian: involontariamente (it)
- Polish: nieumyślnie
- Portuguese: sem querer, involuntariamente (pt), despropositadamente
- Russian: непреднаме́ренно (ru) (neprednamérenno), неумы́шленно (ru) (neumýšlenno)
- Spanish: sin querer (es), involuntariamente (es)
- Turkish: istemeden, istemsizce, yanlışlıkla (tr)
- Ukrainian: ненавми́сне (nenavmýsne), ненавми́сно (nenavmýsno)
- Vietnamese: vô ý (vi)
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