Usually means: Unintentional, not done on purpose.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word inadvertent:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. inadvertent: Merriam-Webster
  2. inadvertent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inadvertent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. inadvertent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. inadvertent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Inadvertent, inadvertent: Wordnik
  7. inadvertent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. inadvertent: Wiktionary
  9. inadvertent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. inadvertent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. inadvertent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Inadvertent, inadvertent: Dictionary.com
  13. inadvertent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Inadvertent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. inadvertent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. inadvertent: Rhymezone
  17. Inadvertent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. inadvertent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. inadvertent: FreeDictionary.org
  20. inadvertent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. inadvertent: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. inadvertent: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inadvertent: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inadvertent: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (inadvertent)

▸ adjective:  Not intentional; not on purpose; not conscious.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Inattentive.

Similar:
accidental, unintended, advertent, unintentional, unwitting, nonintentional, unplanned, unvolitional, unintentioned, unaccidental, more...

Opposite:
intentional, deliberate, purposeful

Types:
accidental, unintentional, unplanned, unwitting, unconscious, spontaneous, more...

Phrases:
inadvertent errors, inadvertent discovery, inadvertent curettage, more...



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Similar:
accidental, unintended, advertent, unintentional, unwitting, nonintentional, unplanned, unvolitional, unintentioned, unaccidental, more...

Opposite:
intentional, deliberate, purposeful

Types:
accidental, unintentional, unplanned, unwitting, unconscious, spontaneous, more...

Phrases:
inadvertent errors, inadvertent discovery, inadvertent curettage, more...



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