Usually means: Accidentally, without intention or awareness.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word inadvertently:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. inadvertently: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. inadvertently: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inadvertently: Collins English Dictionary
  4. inadvertently: Vocabulary.com
  5. Inadvertently, inadvertently: Wordnik
  6. inadvertently: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. inadvertently: Wiktionary
  8. inadvertently: Dictionary.com
  9. inadvertently: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. inadvertently: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. inadvertently: Rhymezone
  12. inadvertently: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. inadvertently: Free Dictionary
  14. inadvertently: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. inadvertently: Dictionary/thesaurus

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

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▸ adverb:  Unintentionally; because of an oversight.

Similar:
unwittingly, unknowingly, on accident, mistakenly, accidentily, accidentally-on-purpose, by accident, wrongly, erroneously, mistakingly, more...

Opposite:
intentionally, deliberately, purposefully

Phrases:
opposite of inadvertently, inadvertently oblivious, inadvertently torture, inadvertently cause, unfortunately inadvertently, more...


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Similar:
unwittingly, unknowingly, on accident, mistakenly, accidentily, accidentally-on-purpose, by accident, wrongly, erroneously, mistakingly, more...

Opposite:
intentionally, deliberately, purposefully

Phrases:
opposite of inadvertently, inadvertently oblivious, inadvertently torture, inadvertently cause, unfortunately inadvertently, more...



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