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Synonyms & Antonyms of unintended
1
happening by chance
- backyard digging that resulted in unintended damage to buried phone wires
Synonyms for unintended
- accidental,
- casual,
- chance,
- fluky
- (also flukey),
- fortuitous,
- inadvertent,
- incidental,
- unintentional,
- unplanned,
- unpremeditated,
- unwitting
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2
not made or done willingly or by choice
- a response that yielded an unintended insight into her personal character
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Antonyms for unintended
- deliberate,
- freewill,
- intentional,
- uncoerced,
- unforced,
- voluntary,
- willful
- (or wilful),
- willing
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The first known use of unintended was in 1649
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