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Webster 1828 Edition

Inadvertently

INADVERT'ENTLY

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adv.

Heedlessly; carelessly; from want of attention; inconsiderately.

Definition 2025

inadvertently

inadvertently

English

Adverb

inadvertently ‎(not comparable)

unintentionally, because of an oversight
- 2013, Chris Bevan, "Borussia Dortmund 0-1 Arsenal", BBC Sport, 6 November 2013:
  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.

Antonyms

Related terms

inadvertent
inadvert

Translations

unintentionally

Chinese:
Mandarin: 無意地 (zh), 无意地 (zh) ‎(wúyì de), 不經意間 (zh), 不经意间 (zh) ‎(bùjīngyìjiān)
Czech: nechtěně
Dutch: onopzettelijk (nl), (abusievelijk (nl))
Esperanto: senvole
Finnish: tahattomasti
French: par inadvertance (fr)
German: versehentlich (de), irrtümlich (de), unbeabsichtigterweise

Greek: άθελα (el) ‎(áthela)
Japanese: うっかり ‎(ukkari), 何気無く ‎(なにげなく, nanigenaku), 何気に ‎(なにげに, nanige ni)
Portuguese: sem querer
Russian: неча́янно (ru) ‎(nečájanno), неумы́шленно (ru) ‎(neumýšlenno), ненаро́ком (ru) ‎(nenarókom), случа́йно (ru) ‎(slučájno)
Slovak: nechtiac, neúmyselne, omylom
Spanish: sin querer (es)
Swedish: oavsiktligt (sv)
Turkish: kazara (tr)