inadvertently

English

Etymology

From inadvertent +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

inadvertently (not comparable)

1. Unintentionally; because of an oversight.
   • 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Disintegration Machine‎^[1]:

     'Dear me! I may have inadvertently touched the handle,' said he.

   • 2013 November 6, Chris Bevan, “Borussia Dortmund 0-1 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport:

     Neven Subotic hooked a volley wide after Ramsey inadvertently headed a Reus free-kick back into the danger zone, and Blaszczykowski was also off target when he met Kevin Grosskreutz's cross.

   • 2025 May 3, Patricia Clarke, “You and me, we gonna live forever … as avatars, at least”, in The Observer‎^[2]:

     for the living human, who in grief may share deeply personal data with the commercial entity that owns the bot, but also for the ghost, which might inadvertently reveal a n old family secret from beyond the grave.

Synonyms

• unawares

Antonyms

• advertently
• advert

Related terms

• inadvertent
• inadvert

Translations

unintentionally

• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} عَنْ غَيْرِ قَصْدٍ (ʕan ḡayri qaṣdin)
• Bulgarian: по невнимание (po nevnimanie)
• Catalan: inadvertidament (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 無意地 / 无意地 (zh) (wúyì de), 無意中 / 无意中 (zh) (wúyìzhōng), 不經意間 / 不经意间 (zh) (bùjīngyìjiān)

• Czech: nechtěně
• Dutch: onopzettelijk (nl), (abusievelijk (nl)), ongewild (nl)
• Esperanto: senvole, senintence
• Finnish: tahattomasti (fi)
• French: par inadvertance (fr), par mégarde (fr), par erreur (fr)
• Georgian: უნებლიედ (uneblied), შემთხვევითად (šemtxvevitad), განუზრახველად (ganuzraxvelad), უყურადღებოდ (uq̇uradɣebod), დაუდევრად (daudevrad), დაუფიქრებლად (daupikreblad)
• German: versehentlich (de), irrtümlich (de), unbeabsichtigterweise
• Greek: άθελα (el) (áthela)
• Japanese: うっかり (ja) (ukkari), 何気無く (なにげなく, nanigenaku), 何気に (なにげに, nanige ni)
• Portuguese: sem querer, inadvertidamente, sem intenção
• Russian: неча́янно (ru) (nečájanno), неумы́шленно (ru) (neumýšlenno), ненаро́ком (ru) (nenarókom), случа́йно (ru) (slučájno)
• Slovak: nechtiac, neúmyselne, omylom
• Spanish: sin querer (es)
• Swedish: oavsiktligt (sv)
• Tocharian B: enersäṅk
• Turkish: kazara (tr)
• Ukrainian: ненавми́сне (nenavmýsne), ненавми́сно (nenavmýsno)