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unintended

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of unintended

1 happening by chance

  • backyard digging that resulted in unintended damage to buried phone wires
Synonyms of unintended

accidental, casual, chance, fluky (also flukey), fortuitous, inadvertent, incidental, unintentional, unplanned, unpremeditated, unwitting
Words Related to unintended

coincidental

freak, odd

aimless, arbitrary, desultory, haphazard, random

uncertain, unexpected, unforeseeable, unforeseen

coerced, forced, involuntary

unconscious, unprompted
Near Antonyms of unintended

certain, destined, expected, fixed, foreordained, foreseeable, foreseen, inevitable, predestined, predetermined, predictable, preordained, prescribed, sure

conscious, freewill, knowing, unforced, voluntary, volunteer, willful (or wilful)
Antonyms of unintended

calculated, deliberate, intended, intentional, planned, premeditated, premeditative, prepense, set

2 not made or done willingly or by choice

  • a response that yielded an unintended insight into her personal character
Synonyms of unintended

coerced, forced, involuntary, unintentional, unwilling, will-less
Words Related to unintended

accidental, unplanned, unpremeditated

automatic, impulsive, instinctive, spontaneous, unprompted

inadvertent, unconscious, unknowing, unwitting
Near Antonyms of unintended

advised, conscious, considered, knowing, planned, premeditated, premeditative, prepense, purposeful

volitional

self-imposed, self-inflicted
Antonyms of unintended

deliberate, freewill, intentional, uncoerced, unforced, voluntary, willful (or wilful), willing

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