UNINTENTIONAL

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not done with purpose or intent

Example:

an unwitting mistake may be overlooked

Synonyms:

unintentional; unplanned; unwitting

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

unintended (not deliberate)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Done or made or performed with purpose and intent

Example:

well-designed houses

Synonyms:

designed; intentional; unintentional

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

fashioned (planned and made or fashioned artistically)

Credits

Context examples:

Evaluating a device to detect malfunctions caused by electromagnetic interference (unwanted disturbances from an external force e.g. radios, cell phones, or unintentional disturbances of another device)

(Device Electromagnetic Compatibility Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)

Having counted our funds, and reduced to order a great mass of unintentional confusion in the first place, and of wilful confusion and falsification in the second, we take it to be clear that Mr. Wickfield might now wind up his business, and his agency-trust, and exhibit no deficiency or defalcation whatever.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Most deaths due to unintentional injury were found to be due to overdose — 72% in the self-harm group and 61% in the ideation group — underscoring the overlap between suicide and overdose risk.

(Emergency department study reveals patterns of patients at increased risk for suicide, National Institutes of Health)

The players with two or more unintentional impacts were six times more likely to have symptoms than those with no unintentional impacts.

(Soccer Players: More Headers, More Concussions, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Players whose heads were hit in a collision two or more times in a two-week period were six times more likely to have concussion symptoms than players who did not have any unintentional head trauma, such as a ball hitting the back of the head or a head colliding with another player's knee, according to a new study.