inadvertent
adjective/ɪnədˈvɜrtənt/
Frequency rank: #15,855 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
happening by accident; not done on purpose.
Example sentence
The journalist published the wrong date in her article due to an entirely inadvertent error.
Synonyms & related words
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