UNINTENTIONAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unintentional mean? 

• UNINTENTIONAL (adjective)
  The adjective UNINTENTIONAL has 2 senses:

1. done or made or performed with purpose and intent

2. not done with purpose or intent

  Familiarity information: UNINTENTIONAL used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNINTENTIONAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Done or made or performed with purpose and intent

Synonyms:

designed; intentional; unintentional

Context example:

well-designed houses

Similar:

fashioned (planned and made or fashioned artistically)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Not done with purpose or intent

Synonyms:

unintentional; unplanned; unwitting

Context example:

an unwitting mistake may be overlooked

Similar:

unintended (not deliberate)

 Context examples 

One or more unintentional head impacts were reported by 37 percent of men and 43 percent of women.

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

“My friend should, perhaps, have taken you along with him; but the slight, if there be one, was unintentional. And you don't like Mr. Arrow?”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Issue associated with the unintentional separation of the device and/or its components from something to which it is connected or attached.

(Detachment of Medical Device Component, Food and Drug Administration)

Issue associated with unintentional pouring out or releasing of chemical substances.

(Chemical Spillage Medical Device Problem, Food and Drug Administration)

Testing the device's response to variations in air pressure for detecting any unwanted or unintentional sound.

(Device Acoustic Noise Testing Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)

A hiccup is an unintentional movement of the diaphragm, the muscle at the base of the lungs.

(Hiccups, NIH)

Chemical releases can be unintentional, as in the case of an industrial accident.

(Chemical Emergencies, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

The untoward medical consequence (or experience) of an unintentional inhalation of oro-pharyngeal or gastric contents into trachea or the lung airways.

(Aspiration Adverse Event, NCI Thesaurus)

I am excessively concerned that he should have any regard for me—but indeed it has been quite unintentional on my side; I never had the smallest idea of it.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The risk for death via unintentional injury (i.e., accidents) was also markedly elevated — 16 times higher for the deliberate self-harm group and 13 times higher for the ideation group than for demographically similar Californians.

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