inadvertently
inadvertently adverb: unintentionally; because of an oversight.
Adverb
inadvertently (not comparable)
- Unintentionally; because of an oversight.
- 'Dear me! I may have inadvertently touched the handle,' said he.1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Disintegration Machine
- 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.2013 November 6, Chris Bevan, “Borussia Dortmund 0-1 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport
- Synonyms:
- unawares
inadvertently meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Odia
inadvertently in Urdu
- بےارادہ, غافلانہ, غلطی سے, سہواً
inadvertently in Bengali
- অসাবধানতাবশত
inadvertently in Malayalam
- by accident, accidentally, unintentionally
- കരുതിക്കൂട്ടിയല്ലാതെ, അനവധാനമായി, അവിചാരിതമായി, യദൃച്ഛയാ, യാദൃച്ഛികമായി, ആകസ്മികമായി
inadvertently in Odia
- ଅସାବଧାନତାବଶତଃ
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- inadvertently in Arabic
- عَنْ غَيْرِ قَصْدٍ ʕan ḡayri qaṣdin, بِدُونِ قَصْدٍ bidūni qaṣdin
Synonyms of inadvertently
Antonyms
Origin of inadvertently
From inadvertent + -ly.
Questions about inadvertently
- What does inadvertently mean?
- Inadvertently means unintentionally; because of an oversight.
- What is inadvertently in Urdu?
- Inadvertently in Urdu is بےارادہ, غافلانہ, غلطی سے. See Inadvertently meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is inadvertently?
- Inadvertently is an adverb.
Words near inadvertently in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: inadvertently (page history and authors); inadvertently (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); inadvertently (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); inadvertently (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); inadvertently (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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