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Definition: Involuntarily |
InvoluntarilyAdverb1. Against your will; "he was involuntarily held against his will". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "involuntarily" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references) |
Note: Involuntarily \In*vol"un*ta*ri*ly\, adverb. [From Involuntary.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Antonym: voluntarily (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Involuntarily |
| English words defined with "involuntarily": act involuntarily ♦ caught up ♦ drop open ♦ fall open ♦ move involuntarily ♦ nutate ♦ palilalia ♦ Reflex action ♦ tremble. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "involuntarily": Apple Computer, Inc. ♦ combat survival ♦ Permanent job losers. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I have that disease that makes you swear involuntarily. Sonofabitch! (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | The clerk in the tank involuntarily applauded. |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | I shuddered, and involuntarily let it fall upon the floor. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The neck may turn or pull involuntarily, especially when tired. (references) | |
Legislation in a few states dictates that ECT may in no circumstance be provided to an involuntarily committed patient. (references) | ||
People with TS may involuntarily shout obscenities (coprolalia) or constantly repeat the words of other people (echolalia). (references) | ||
Children | Austria | Previously, mentally retarded minor girls could be sterilized involuntarily at the request of parents, and mentally retarded women could be sterilized involuntarily at the request of the responsible family member or by court order. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Thailand | In November 63 Karen asylum seekers were involuntarily returned to the Mon cease-fire zone. (references) |
Haiti | In 2000 the ONM stopped meeting, processing, and providing humanitarian services to involuntarily repatriated migrants. (references) | |
Economic History | Venezuela | Under the previous severance pay system, departing employees received one month's salary (two months if they left involuntarily) for each year worked based on their current pay, making it difficult for employers to forecast future costs and expensive to cut excess workers. (references) |
Human Rights | Taiwan | However, in April a Taipei district court judge acquitted a defendant of theft charges on the grounds that his confession was made involuntarily. (references) |
Sri Lanka | The commissions found that 16,742 persons disappeared after having been removed involuntarily from their homes, in most cases by security forces. (references) | |
Women | Jordan | There were up to 40 women involuntarily detained in such "protective custody" during the year. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Involuntarily" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 99.13% of the time. "Involuntarily" is used about 229 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 99.13% | 227 | 19,961 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.87% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 229 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "involuntarily": act involuntarily ♦ move involuntarily. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
inhaling involuntarily secondhand smoke | 2 |
inhaling involuntarily kid secondhand smoke | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "involuntarily"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | padashur (unawares, unintentionally, unwittingly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 不随意地, 不"自主 (can't help). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unfreiwillige, unfreiwillig (compulsory, involuntary, unconscious, unintended, unintentional, unintentionally, unwilling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | önkéntelenül (unawares). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 我知らず (instinctively), 勝手に (arbitrarily, as one pleases, of it's own accord, wilfully). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | かってに (arbitrarily, as one pleases, of it's own accord, wilfully), われしらず (instinctively). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 무의식 으로. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | involuntarilyay involuntar (accidental, involuntary, undesigned, unwilling, unwittingly, without meaning it). (various references) nevoljno, nehotično. (various references) istemsiz olarak (automatically, in spite of oneself). (various references) bialaз (willy-nilly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Involuntarily" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: involuntarity, involuntaryl. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "involuntarily" (pronounced i'nvÄ'lunter"ulē) |
| 5 | -t er" u l ē | monetarily. |
| 3 | -u l ē | abnormally, abysmally, accidentally, actually, additionally, agriculturally, anecdotally, anencephaly, angrily, annually, anomaly, arbitrarily, architecturally, artfully, artificially, beneficially, bilaterally, blissfully, bodily, botanically, broccoli, brutally, busily, carefully, casually, centrally, cerebrally, cheerfully, chronically, Cicely, circumstantially, civilly, clinically, clumsily, coincidentally, comically, commercially, conceptually, conditionally, confidentially, congressionally, conspiratorially, constitutionally, continentally, continually, contractually, contradictorily, conventionally, cordially, crazily, criminally, critically, culturally, customarily, cynically, delightfully, developmentally, diagonally, diametrically, digitally, dismally, diurnally, dorsally, dreadfully, dutifully, easily, editorially, educationally, eerily, electrically, electronically, emotionally, empirically, environmentally, equally, essentially, eternally, ethically, eventually, exceptionally, experimentally, exponentially, externally, extraordinarily, facsimile, factually, faithfully, family, fanatically, fatally, federally, finally, financially, fiscally, fitfully, florally, forcefully, formally, fractionally, frantically, frightfully, frugally, functionally, fundamentally, gainfully, generally, generationally, geographically, giggly, gleefully, globally, gloomily, governmentally, gracefully, gradually, gratefully, gravelly, gravitationally, greedily, habitually, handily, happily, hastily, haughtily, heartily, heavily, helpfully, hermetically, historically, homily, hopefully, horizontally, hungrily, icily, illegally, impartially, incidentally, incrementally, individually, industrially, informally, initially, institutionally, intellectually, intentionally, internally, internationally, intrinsically, irrationally, jauntily, journalistically, joyfully, judicially, lawfully, lazily, legally, liberally, literally, locally, loyally, luckily, magically, magnetically, majestically, manfully, manually, marginally, masterfully, materially, mathematically, meaningfully, medicinally, mentally, mercifully, merrily, methodically, metrically, mightily, militarily, mineralogically, minimally, momentarily, monopoly, monumentally, morally, mortally, multifamily, multilaterally, municipally, mutually, nasally, nationally, nattily, naturally, necessarily, noisily, nominally, normally, novelly, nutritionally, occasionally, officially, oligopoly, operationally, optimistically, orally, orchestrally, ordinarily, originally, painfully, parenthetically, partially, pathetically, peacefully, perennially, periodically, peripherally, perpetually, personally, phenomenally, philosophically, physically, pitifully, playfully, politically, potentially, pragmatically, preferentially, preliminarily, presidentially, primarily, procedurally, professionally, proportionally, provincially, provisionally, purposefully, quintessentially, racially, radially, rationally, readily, regally, regionally, regretfully, respectfully, rightfully, ritualistically, romantically, royally, ruefully, sardonically, satisfactorily, scantily, scientifically, seasonally, secondarily, semiannually, sequentially, serenely, severally, sexually, skeptically, skillfully, sleepily, sloppily, socially, specially, speedily, spiritually, statistically, statutorily, steadily, steamily, structurally, subfamily, subliminally, substantially, subtly, successfully, summarily, supremely, surgically, symbolically, sympathetically, tactfully, tactically, tangentially, tastefully, tearfully, technically, technologically, temperamentally, temporally, temporarily, terminally, territorially, testily, thankfully, theatrically, theoretically, therapeutically, thoughtfully, totally, traditionally, Tripoli, truthfully, uncannily, unconditionally, unconstitutionally, uncritically, uneasily, unequivocally, unhappily, unilaterally, unintentionally, universally, unlawfully, unnaturally, unnecessarily, unofficially, unsuccessfully, unusually, usefully, usually, virtually, viscerally, visually, vitally, vocally, voluntarily, warily, wearily, wiggly, wilfully, willfully, wishfully, wistfully, wittily, wobbly, woefully, wonderfully, wrongfully. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-i-l-l-n-n-o-r-t-u-v-y" | |
-2 letters: involuntary, voluntarily. | |
-3 letters: nontrivial. | |
-4 letters: ruination, trivially, unitarily, urination, virtually, voluntary. | |
-5 letters: alluvion, antiroll, illation, lunation, nonrival, nonviral, nounally, outrival, ritually, trillion, vanillin, vanitory, villainy. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6E 76 6F 6C 75 6E 74 61 72 69 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -. ...- --- .-.. ..- -. - .- .-. .. .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101110 01110110 01101111 01101100 01110101 01101110 01110100 01100001 01110010 01101001 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I n v o l u n t a r i l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006E 0076 006F 006C 0075 006E 0074 0061 0072 0069 006C 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)43808881788780866784757891 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Albanian | fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferim | shqip, 阿"巴尼亚语, 阿爾巴尼亞人 , albaner, albán, 알"니아, arnãut, albanez, arnãuţesc, albanski, albanac, Arnavut |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | kinez, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinesisch, kínai, チフス菌 , チャイニーズ , 중국, chinezesc, chinezeşte, chinezã, chinez, kineski jezik, kineski, çinli, çince, çin ile ilgili, çin |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | gjerman, 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , német, ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , 독일, neamţ, germanski, alman |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | 匈牙利语, 匈牙利語 , Ungar, magyar, 헝가리, unguresc, limba ungarã, limba maghiarã, ungureşte, ungur, maghiar, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, macarca, macar |
Japanese Kanji | 辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 | japonez, 日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , japaner, japanisch, japán, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", 일본, japonezã, japanski, japanski jezik, japanac, Japonca |
Japanese Katakana | じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ | japonez, 日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , japaner, japanisch, japán, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", 일본, japonezã, japanski, japanski jezik, japanac, Japonca |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | korean, 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , koreanisch, Koreaner, koreai, 한국, limba coreeanã, coreean, korejski, korejski jezik, koreanac, kore'li |
Romanian | dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcire | rumun, 罗马尼亚语, rumäne, román, 루마니아, român, rumunski jezik, rumunski |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | 塞"维亚-克罗地亚语, 塞爾維亞克羅地亞語 , serbokroatisch, 세르보크로아티아, sârbo-croat, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | turk, 土耳其語 , 土耳其, türkisch, török, turcesc, turc, turski jezik, turski, türkçe, türk |
Turkmen | Turkmenin, Turkmene | |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , englisch, angol, 영국, englezesc, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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