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unintentionally

adv

Etymology

From unintentional + -ly or un- + intentionally.

  1. borrowed from intentiōnālis
  2. formed as unintentional — “un- + intentional”
  3. formed as unintentionally — “unintentional + -ly”

Definitions

  1. Without meaning to, in an unintentional manner, not intentionally.

    • "Oh, no! 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."
    • And, even if you do not unintentionally overstore your markets, over-expansion by your competitors will produce similar effects.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at unintentionally. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at unintentionally. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at unintentionally

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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