UNINTENTIONALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unintentionally mean? 

• UNINTENTIONALLY (adverb)
  The adverb UNINTENTIONALLY has 1 sense:

1. without intention; in an unintentional manner

  Familiarity information: UNINTENTIONALLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNINTENTIONALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without intention; in an unintentional manner

Synonyms:

accidentally; unintentionally

Context example:

she hit him unintentionally

Antonym:

intentionally (with intention; in an intentional manner)

Pertainym:

unintentional (not done with purpose or intent)

 Context examples 

Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge: that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her, and believed it to be done.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Mason will not defy me; nor, knowing it, will he hurt me—but, unintentionally, he might in a moment, by one careless word, deprive me, if not of life, yet for ever of happiness.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources or the difficulties of my life.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Event in which information is unintentionally permanently or temporarily lost, deleted, corrupted, or overwritten.

(Data Corrupted Computer Software Problem Associated with Medical Device, Food and Drug Administration)

This is one of a growing number of examples where looking at wild relatives and forerunners of our domesticated crops is giving us back some of the important genetic information that had been unintentionally tossed aside, says Clifford Weil of NSF's Division of Integrative Organismal Systems.

(Harvesting genes to improve watermelons, National Science Foundation)

A device experiencing problems due to an unintentionally low-resistance connection between two points in an electric circuit, resulting in either excessive current flow that often causes damage or in a new shorter circuit that draws current away from the original pathways and components.

(Device Short Circuit Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)

It is caused by the stasis of food and subsequent overgrowth of bacteria in a portion of the small intestine that is unintentionally bypassed as a complication of abdominal surgery or as a sequela of gastrointestinal disorders which impede effective motility.

(Blind Loop Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Unintentionally she returned to that part of the room; he saw her, and, instantly rising, said, with studied politeness—"I beg your pardon, madam, this is your seat;" and though she immediately drew back with a decided negative, he was not to be induced to sit down again.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)