English

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Etymology

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Back-formation from inadvertence and inadvertency.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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inadvertent (not comparable)

  1. Not intentional; not on purpose; not conscious.
    We check everything because an inadvertent error could be disastrous.
  2. (obsolete) Inattentive.
    • 1712 October 8, Joseph Addison, The Spectator, number 504, page 119:
      The Sharpers about Town very ingeniously understood themselves to be the undesigning Part of Mankind what Foxes are to Lambs, and therefore used the Word Biting to express any Exploit wherein they had over-reach'd any innocent and inadvertent Man of his Purse.

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French inadvertant.

Adjective

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inadvertent m or n (feminine singular inadvertentă, masculine plural inadvertenți, feminine and neuter plural inadvertente)

  1. inadvertent

Declension

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singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-
accusative
indefinite inadvertent inadvertentă inadvertenți inadvertente
definite inadvertentul inadvertenta inadvertenții inadvertentele
genitive-
dative
indefinite inadvertent inadvertente inadvertenți inadvertente
definite inadvertentului inadvertentei inadvertenților inadvertentelor