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Definition: Unintentional |
UnintentionalAdjective1. Not done or made or performed with purpose or intent. 2. Without deliberate intent; "my heart with unwilled love grew warm"- George Macdonald. 3. Not intentional; "an unintended slight"; "an unintentional pun"; "the offense was unintentional"; "an unwitting mistake may be overlooked". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unintentional" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Synonyms: UnintentionalSynonyms: undesigned (adj), unplanned (adj), unwilled (adj), unwitting (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: designed (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Chance 2 | Adjective: casual, fortuitous, accidental, adventitious, causeless, incidental, contingent, uncaused, undetermined, indeterminate; random, statistical; possible; unintentional. |
Intention | Adjective: fortuitous; unintentional, unintended; accidental; not meant; undesigned, purposed; unpremeditated; unforeseen, uncontemplated, never thought of. |
Necessity | Involuntary, instinctive, automatic, blind, mechanical; unconscious, unwitting, unthinking; unintentional; (undesigned); impulsive. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Unintentional |
| English words defined with "unintentional": accidentally ♦ giveaway ♦ inadvertence ♦ malaprop, malapropism, misstep ♦ oversight ♦ stumble ♦ To give one's self away, trip ♦ unintentionally, Unmeant, unplanned, unwitting. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "unintentional": accidental earth ♦ buffer storage locations ♦ Copperas ♦ flame out ♦ get fast ♦ hoax virus ♦ mass detonation, missing pick ♦ nonfiling insurance ♦ runout ♦ stable operation. (references) |
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Screenplays | Past tense was unintentional. (Barney Miller; writing credit: Danny Arnold) | |
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 | Line graph showing rate of unintentional fall-relatd death among adults aged 65 years and older, by sex--United States, 1987-1996. Credit: CDC. |  | A security fence is installed at an on campus nursery in a St. Petersburg school to prevent vandalism and to reduce the threat of unintentional impacts to the plants in the nursery. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
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Health | Although unintentional injuries account for 75 percent of TBI in this age group, child abuse is also an issue. (references) | |
Human Rights | Ecuador | Previously the police court had convicted the officer of intentional homicide, but the conviction later was reduced, without explanation, to unintentional homicide. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Unintentional" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.17% of the time. "Unintentional" is used about 106 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 97.17% | 103 | 32,137 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.83% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 106 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "unintentional": unintentional threat. 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 |
unintentional weight loss | 8 |
unintentional | 4 |
nudity unintentional | 3 |
injury unintentional | 2 |
plagiarism unintentional | 2 |
design flaw in intentional research unintentional | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "unintentional"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | неумишлен (involuntary, undesigned), неволен (involuntary, spontaneous, unmeant, unpremeditated). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 有意 意. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | neúmyslný (inadvertent, involuntary, unconscious, undesigning, unmeant, unpremeditated). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | utilsigtet okklusion paa grund af bleer (unintentional occlusion by napkins), utilsigtet amplitudemodulation (unintentional amplitude modulation), hændelige trusler (accidental threat, unintentional threat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ongewild. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | senintenca. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | غیرعمدی (Inadvertent, Involuntary, Random, Unwitting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tarkoittamaton (undesigned), tahaton (involuntary, unpremeditated). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | involontaire (unmeant, unwilling, unwitting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unabsichtlich (accidental, innocent, involuntarily, involuntary, unconscious, undeliberate, unintended, unintentionally, unwitting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ακούσιοσ (averse, involuntary, loath, reflex, reluctant, unintended, unwilling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | tak disengaja. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | involontario (inadvertent, involuntary, unwitting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 無意 , 無作為 (at random), 思わず (spontaneous), 何の気無し (casually, with calmness), 何の気なし (casually, with calmness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | おもわず (spontaneous), な"のきなし (casually, with calmness), むさくい (at random), むい (idleness, inactivity, lacking rank, ordinary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 우연한 (Accidental, fortuitous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | intentionalunay inconscientemente (unawares, unconsciously, unwittingly). (various references) fãrã voie (involuntary, unwillingly). (various references) непреднамеренный (involuntary, purposeless, undeliberate, unintended, unmeant, unpremeditated). (various references) slučajan (accidental, adventitious, chance, coincidental, contingent, fortuitous, haphazard, incidental, random, unexpected), pojmovni (conceptual, notional), nenameran (undesigned, unintended, unwilled, unwitting), nehotimičan (undesigned, unintended). (various references) involuntario (involuntary, unwilled, unwitting). (various references) oavsiktlig (inadvertent, involuntary, unintended, unwitting). (various references) kasıtsız (unconscious, undesigned, unintended, unmeant, unpremeditated, unwitting). (various references) ненавмисний (casual, extemporary, inadvertent, involuntary, purposeless, undesigned, unpremeditated). (various references) không chủ tâm (involuntary, purposeless, unwitting), không cố ý (indeliberate, involuntary, undesigned, unwitting). (various references) anfwriadol. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | inprudens, inprudentem, inprudentes, inprudenti, inprudentis, inprudentium. (various references) |
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Words beginning with "unintentional": unintentionally. (additional references) | |
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"Unintentional" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unintentionaly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unintentional" (pronounced u'ni'nte"nshunul) |
| 10 | -i' n t e" n sh u n u l | intentional. |
| 7 | -e" n sh u n u l | conventional, dimensional, unconventional. |
| 5 | -sh u n u l | aberrational, additional, binational, coeducational, compositional, computational, concessional, conditional, confessional, conformational, confrontational, congregational, congressional, connotational, constitutional, conversational, correctional, denominational, depositional, devotional, directional, dysfunctional, educational, emotional, exceptional, factional, fictional, fluxional, foundational, fractional, functional, generational, gravitational, improvisational, informational, inspirational, institutional, instructional, intergenerational, international, investigational, Invitational, irrational, jurisdictional, motivational, multinational, national, navigational, nonprofessional, nontraditional, nutritional, obsessional, occupational, operational, optional, organizational, processional, professional, promotional, proportional, rational, recreational, relational, representational, rotational, sectional, sensational, situational, supranational, traditional, transformational, transitional, transnational, unconditional, unconstitutional, unemotional, unprofessional, untraditional, vocational. |
| 4 | -u n u l | abdominal, aboriginal, Arsenal, attitudinal, biphenyl, cantonal, Cardinal, collisional, criminal, delusional, diagonal, divisional, doctrinal, duodenal, erosional, gastrointestinal, hexagonal, impersonal, interpersonal, intestinal, juvenile, latitudinal, longitudinal, luminal, marginal, medicinal, nominal, noncriminal, occasional, octagonal, original, personal, phenomenal, polygonal, provisional, regional, retinal, seasonal, seminal, sentinel, subliminal, superregional, terminal, virginal. |
| 3 | -n u l | adrenal, anal, annal, annul, atonal, autumnal, carnal, channel, Colonel, communal, cornel, Darnel, departmental, diurnal, empanel, eternal, external, faunal, fennel, final, flannel, fraternal, funnel, hormonal, Hymnal, impanel, infernal, internal, journal, kennel, kernel, maternal, monoclonal, monsoonal, morainal, nocturnal, panel, paternal, penal, polyvinyl, renal, semifinal, shrapnel, signal, spinal, tonal, tribunal, tunnel, vaginal, venal, vernal, Vinal, vinyl. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-i-l-n-n-n-n-o-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: intentional. | |
-4 letters: antiunion, intention, lineation, tuitional. | |
-5 letters: intitule, intonate, lenition, lunation, nontitle, nutation, uintaite. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-i-l-n-n-n-n-o-t-t-u" | |
+2 letters: unintentionally. | |
+4 letters: unconventionality. | |
| 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)55 6E 69 6E 74 65 6E 74 69 6F 6E 61 6C |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. .. -. - . -. - .. --- -. .- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01101001 01101110 01110100 01100101 01101110 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n i n t e n t i o n a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0069 006E 0074 0065 006E 0074 0069 006F 006E 0061 006C |
| 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)55807580867180867581806778 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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