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involuntarily

Syllables: in·vol·un·ta·ri·ly/ɪnˈvɒləntɹɪli/US/ɪnˌvɑlənˈtɛɹɪli/

involuntarily adverb: in an involuntary manner; done without conscious thought.

Adverb

involuntarily (comparative more involuntarily, superlative most involuntarily)

  1. In an involuntary manner; done without conscious thought.
    • Her leg twitched involuntarily.
    • He involuntarily overheard the conversation.

involuntarily meaning in Tamil and Urdu

involuntarily in Tamil

விருப்பமில்லாது

involuntarily in Urdu

involuntarily
ازخود azxud

Examples of involuntarily in a sentence

  • Their pale gold was lovely as ever; but there was something in the touch from which he involuntarily recoiled.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Last Letter”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn...
  • Instead, he has spasmodic dysphonia, a rare neurological condition in which the muscles that open and close his vocal cords spasm involuntarily, creating a strained or strangled quality to his speech.2025 January 29, Sandee LaMotte, “A rare brain disorder robbed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of his strong speaking voice”, in CNN:

All 20 example sentences with involuntarily

Forms of involuntarily

comparativemore involuntarily
superlativemost involuntarily

Origin of involuntarily

From involuntary + -ly or in- + voluntarily.

Questions about involuntarily

What does involuntarily mean?
Involuntarily means in an involuntary manner; done without conscious thought.
What is involuntarily in Tamil?
Involuntarily in Tamil is விருப்பமில்லாது. See Involuntarily meaning in Tamil.
How do you use involuntarily in a sentence?
Their pale gold was lovely as ever; but there was something in the touch from which he involuntarily recoiled.
What part of speech is involuntarily?
Involuntarily is an adverb.
How do you pronounce involuntarily?
Involuntarily is pronounced /ɪnˈvɒləntɹɪli/ (UK).

Words near involuntarily in the dictionary

  1. involucret
  2. involucrets
  3. involucrin
  4. involucrum
  5. involukrin
  6. involuntarily
  7. involuntariness
  8. involuntary
  9. involuntary manslaughter
  10. involuntary manslaughters
  11. involuntary movement

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Adapted from Wiktionary: involuntarily (page history and authors); involuntarily (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ازخود (Urdu) (page history and authors). 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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