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Antonyms for unintentional


Grammar : Adj
Spell : uhn-in-ten-shuh-nl
Phonetic Transcription : ˌʌn ɪnˈtɛn ʃə nl



Definition of unintentional

Origin :
  • 1782, from un- (1) "not" + intentional. Related: Unintentionally (1769).
  • adj not planned
Example sentences :
  • My father did them a hideous wrong, but it was an unintentional wrong.
  • Extract from : « The Monster Men » by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • “Yes, he is dead,” replied Tresler, with unintentional solemnity.
  • Extract from : « The Night Riders » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • If I had believed the "garrulity," as she called it, to have been unintentional, I might have been flattered.
  • Extract from : « Kent Knowles: Quahaug » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • It was as unintentional as the birth of a thought in the head, and he heard nothing of it himself.
  • Extract from : « Typhoon » by Joseph Conrad
  • “I told you that the shooting of the animal was unintentional,” he said.
  • Extract from : « Out of the Depths » by Robert Ames Bennet
  • Besides, there was one chance in a hundred that the mishap was unintentional.
  • Extract from : « Up the Forked River » by Edward Sylvester Ellis
  • But that distraction of mind which is unintentional does not destroy the fruit of prayer.
  • Extract from : « On Prayer and The Contemplative Life » by St. Thomas Aquinas
  • Trespass lies for unintentional, as well as for intended wrongs.
  • Extract from : « The Common Law » by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • The swagger was unintentional, and the recklessness did not exist.
  • Extract from : « The Golden Dream » by R.M. Ballantyne
  • If so, tell me; and I will beg your pardon, for it must have been unintentional on my part?
  • Extract from : « She and I, Volume 1 » by John Conroy Hutcheson

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