involuntarily

adv
/ɪnˈvɒləntɹɪli/UK/ɪnˌvɑlənˈtɛɹɪli/US/ɪnˈvɒlənˌtɛɹɪli/CA/ɪnˈvɔləntɹɪli/

Etymology

From involuntary + -ly or in- + voluntarily.

  1. derived from involontarius
  2. formed as involuntarily — “involuntary + -ly

Definitions

  1. In an involuntary manner

    In an involuntary manner; done without conscious thought.

    • Her leg twitched involuntarily.
    • He involuntarily overheard the conversation.
    • His eyes filled with tears, as he took up the glittering lengths. Their pale gold was lovely as ever; but there was something in the touch from which he involuntarily recoiled.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for involuntarily. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA