"unintentional" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˌʌnɪnˈtɛnʃənəl/, [ˌʌnɪnˈtʰɛnʃn̩ɫ̩] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-unintentional.wav Forms: more unintentional [comparative], most unintentional [superlative]
Etymology: From un- + intentional. Etymology templates: {{af|en|un-|intentional|id1=negative}} un- + intentional Head templates: {{en-adj}} unintentional (comparative more unintentional, superlative most unintentional)
  1. Not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting. Hyponyms: ironic Derived forms: unintentionality, unintentionally, unintentionalness Related terms: coincidental, incongruous, unconscious, unexpected, impromptu Translations (not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting): неумишлен (neumišlen) (Bulgarian), involuntari (Catalan), 无意的 (Chinese Mandarin), 无心的 (Chinese Mandarin), neúmyslný [masculine] (Czech), utiltænkt (Danish), onbedoeld (Dutch), onbedoelde (Dutch), senintenca (Esperanto), tahaton (Finnish), unabsichtlich (German), unbeabsichtigt (German), 𐌿𐌽𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍃 (unfaurweis) (Gothic), véletlen (Hungarian), pokerehū (Maori), ufrivillig (Norwegian Bokmål), ufrivillig (Norwegian Nynorsk), desintencionado (Spanish), inintencionado (Spanish), involuntario [masculine] (Spanish), sin querer (Spanish), sin proponérselo (Spanish), non intencional (Spanish), hindi sinasadya (Tagalog)
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          "ref": "2015 July 22, Reshma M. Khan et al., “Embolic Stroke as the Initial Manifestation of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus”, in Case Reports in Rheumatology, volume 2015, →DOI:",
          "text": "Review of systems was positive for unintentional weight gain of 13.5 kilograms in the last eight months, excessive fatigue, fever, difficulty focusing, one episode of painful oral ulcer on the roof of her mouth, change in the hair texture with nonscarring alopecia, shortness of breath with exertion, and constipation.",
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        "Not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting."
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          "source": "Thesaurus:unintentional",
          "word": "designless"
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          "source": "Thesaurus:unintentional",
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          "source": "Thesaurus:unintentional",
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:unintentional",
          "word": "unplanned"
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          "source": "Thesaurus:unintentional",
          "word": "unpurposed"
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          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "neumišlen",
          "sense": "not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting",
          "word": "неумишлен"
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          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting",
          "word": "involuntari"
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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting",
          "word": "无意的"
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        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting",
          "word": "无心的"
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          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting",
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            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "neúmyslný"
        },
        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting",
          "word": "utiltænkt"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting",
          "word": "onbedoeld"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting",
          "word": "onbedoelde"
        },
        {
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting",
          "word": "senintenca"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting",
          "word": "tahaton"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting",
          "word": "unabsichtlich"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting",
          "word": "unbeabsichtigt"
        },
        {
          "code": "got",
          "lang": "Gothic",
          "roman": "unfaurweis",
          "sense": "not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting",
          "word": "𐌿𐌽𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍃"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting",
          "word": "véletlen"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting",
          "word": "pokerehū"
        },
        {
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          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting",
          "word": "ufrivillig"
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          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting",
          "word": "ufrivillig"
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          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting",
          "word": "desintencionado"
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          "code": "es",
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          "sense": "not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting",
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          "sense": "not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting",
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          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting",
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          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting",
          "word": "non intencional"
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          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting",
          "word": "hindi sinasadya"
        }
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
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      "word": "неумишлен"
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      "sense": "not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting",
      "word": "无意的"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting",
      "word": "无心的"
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      "sense": "not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting",
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        "masculine"
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    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting",
      "word": "utiltænkt"
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting",
      "word": "onbedoeld"
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    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting",
      "word": "onbedoelde"
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    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting",
      "word": "senintenca"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting",
      "word": "tahaton"
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting",
      "word": "unabsichtlich"
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting",
      "word": "unbeabsichtigt"
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    {
      "code": "got",
      "lang": "Gothic",
      "roman": "unfaurweis",
      "sense": "not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting",
      "word": "𐌿𐌽𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍃"
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    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting",
      "word": "véletlen"
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    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting",
      "word": "pokerehū"
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    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting",
      "word": "ufrivillig"
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    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting",
      "word": "ufrivillig"
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting",
      "word": "desintencionado"
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting",
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting",
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      "word": "involuntario"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting",
      "word": "sin querer"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting",
      "word": "sin proponérselo"
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting",
      "word": "non intencional"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting",
      "word": "hindi sinasadya"
    }
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  "word": "unintentional"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.