Unexpected vs Inadvertently - What's the difference?
unexpected | inadvertently |
Not expected, anticipated or foreseen.
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unintentionally, because of an oversight
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As an adjective unexpected
is not expected, anticipated or foreseen.As an adverb inadvertently is
unintentionally, because of an oversight.unexpected
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.}}
- The windmill presented unexpected difficulties.
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* expectedDerived terms
* unexpectedly * unexpectednessinadvertently
English
Adverb
(-)Borussia Dortmund 0-1 Arsenal", BBC Sport , 6 November 2013:
- Neven Subotic hooked a volley wide after Ramsey inadvertently headed a Reus free-kick back into the danger zone, and Blaszczykowski was also off target when he met Kevin Grosskreutz's cross.