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involuntary

Syllables: in·vol·un·ta·ry/ɪnˈvɒl.ən.tɹi/US/ɪnˈvɑ.lənˌtɛɹ.i/

involuntary adjective: without intention; unintentional.

Adjective

involuntary (comparative more involuntary, superlative most involuntary)

  1. Without intention; unintentional.
    • In 2003, Christopher Below was in an interrogation room at the Evansville Police Department when he admitted to Detective Scott Thomas of the Evansville Police Department that he had shot Kathern Fetzer in his apartment and disposed of the body in a commercial trash bin. Her remains were never...2026 August 6, Nicholas Muhoro, “An Ohio Teen Vanished During a One-Mile Drive in 1994. Her Locked Car Was Found Hours Later”, in Skip Boring, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2026
    Synonyms:
    inadvertent
  2. Not voluntary or willing; contrary or opposed to explicit will or desire; unwilling.
    • He found himself the involuntary witness in the trial.
    Synonyms:
    unbewised

involuntary meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

involuntary in Tamil

இயல்பாக எழுகின்ற, எண்ணாமல் நிகழ்கின்ற, கட்டாயமான, தானாக இயல்கின்ற, தானாகச் செய்ய விரும்பாத, விருப்பாற்றலுக்குட் படாத

involuntary in Urdu

بےارادہ, غیراختیاری, مجبوراً

involuntary in Bengali

অনিচ্ছাকৃত, অনৈচ্ছিক

involuntary in Malayalam

not voluntary or willing
അസ്വച്ഛന്ദ asvacchanda
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involuntary in Kannada
ಉದ್ದೇಶಿಸದ, ಅನೈಚ್ಛಿಕ, ಅನಿಯಂತ್ರಿತ, ತಿಳಿಯದೆ ಮಾಡಿದ

Examples of involuntary in a sentence

  • Ruth was prosecuted for involuntary manslaughter after she hit Tony with a car.
  • That flutter in your voice is a vocal tremor, caused by the involuntary contractions of muscles in the larynx, throat or other adjacent parts of the body.
  • Joey, on the other hand, claims he is a mentalcel: involuntary celibate due to his mental challenges.

All 24 example sentences with involuntary

Synonyms of involuntary

Forms of involuntary

comparativemore involuntary
superlativemost involuntary

Origin of involuntary

From in- + voluntary, from Late Latin involontarius, from in + volontarius.

Words formed from involuntary

Phrases with involuntary

Questions about involuntary

What does involuntary mean?
Involuntary means without intention; unintentional.
What is involuntary in Tamil?
Involuntary in Tamil is இயல்பாக எழுகின்ற, எண்ணாமல் நிகழ்கின்ற, கட்டாயமான. See Involuntary meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is involuntary?
Involuntary is an adjective.
How do you pronounce involuntary?
Involuntary is pronounced /ɪnˈvɒl.ən.tɹi/ (UK).

Words near involuntary in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: involuntary (page history and authors); involuntary (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); involuntary (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Involuntary (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); involuntary (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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