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un·in·tend·ed

 (ŭn′ĭn-tĕn′dĭd)
adj.
Not deliberate or intentional; unplanned: an unintended offense.
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unintended

(ˌʌnɪnˈtɛndɪd)
adj
not intended; unplanned
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.unintended - not deliberateunintended - not deliberate      
unmotivated - without motivation
unplanned - without apparent forethought or prompting or planning; "an unplanned economy"; "accepts an unplanned order"; "an unplanned pregnancy"; "unplanned remarks"
intended - resulting from one's intentions; "your intended trip abroad"; "an intended insult"
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unintended

adjective
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Translations

unintended

[ˈʌnɪnˈtendɪd] unintentional [ˈʌnɪnˈtenʃənl] ADJinvoluntario, no intencionado
it was quite unintendedfue totalmente involuntario
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

unintended

[ˌʌnɪnˈtɛndɪd] adj [consequences, pregnancies] → non désiré(e)
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

unintended

, unintentional
adjunbeabsichtigt, unabsichtlich; joke alsounfreiwillig
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

unintended

[ˌʌnɪnˈtɛndɪd] adjnon voluto/a
it was quite unintended → non l'ho (or l'ha ) fatto apposta
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

unintended

adj no planeado, no deseado, accidental; — pregnancy embarazo no planeado or planificado, embarazo no deseado
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References in classic literature ?
She answered, wanting to check unintended consequences--
But she hesitated to beg that he would keep entire silence on a subject which she had herself unnecessarily mentioned, not being used to stoop in that way; and while she was hesitating there was already a rush of unintended consequences under the apple-tree where the tea-things stood.
What good I do, in the common sense of that word, must be aside from my main path, and for the most part wholly unintended. Men say, practically, Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought go about doing good.
I glanced at all her clothing scattered about the room and hissed forcibly the warning "Perfect immobility"; noticing with relief that she didn't offer to move, though animation was returning to her and her lips had remained parted in an awful, unintended effect of a smile.
With an imperceptible smile, he accepted the unintended compliment, but he felt a pang when he noticed that to her Aunt went the same affectionate, impetuous embrace that she had given to him at the station.
He is, in fact, but for his years and size, rather like a very impetuous baby "taking notice" eagerly and loudly, and requiring almost as much watching to keep him out of unintended mischief.
Need for modern contraception based on 2017 data, there are an estimated 10.1 million pregnancies in Pakistan each year, 3.8 million (37%) of which are unintended. Twenty per cent of these unintended pregnancies end in unplanned births and 69% end in induced abortion (and the remainder end in miscarriage).
One way to manage such costs is to reduce the number of unintended pregnancies - that is pregnancies that occur among women who want to postpone pregnancy or stop childbearing altogether.
One-sixth of the women in the reproductive age group are adolescents aged 15 to 19 and about half of the pregnancies that occur in this age group in developing regions are unintended.
A California woman is suing Tesla, claiming that her brand new 2019 Model X SUV did an unintended acceleration and pinned her to the wall in her garage, Business Insider's Linette Lopez reports.
Roughly half of the pregnancies in New Jersey are unintended and nearly all unintended pregnancies are attributed to women who do not use birth control," said Turner in a statement.
"...[M]uch of the fertility decline of the last ten years is driven by declines among women whose births were likely to be unintended, and specifically by births to young women," they conclude in Fertility Trends in the United States, 1980-2017: The Role of Unintended Births (NBER Working Paper No.