Antonyms for accidentallyac·ci·den·tal·ly

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1. by chance, accidentally, circumstantially, unexpectedlyadverb

   without advance planning

   "they met accidentally"

   Antonyms:
   by design, on purpose, deliberately, designedly, intentionally, advisedly, purposely, by choice

   Synonyms:
   by luck, incidentally, unintentionally, circumstantially, perchance, by chance, unexpectedly, out of the blue, haply, minutely

2. incidentally, accidentallyadverb

   of a minor or subordinate nature

   "these magnificent achievements were only incidentally influenced by Oriental models"

   Antonyms:
   designedly, by design, purposely, on purpose, by choice, deliberately, advisedly, intentionally

   Synonyms:
   incidentally, unintentionally, by the bye, by chance, circumstantially, apropos, by the way, unexpectedly

3. unintentionally, accidentallyadverb

   without intention; in an unintentional manner

   "she hit him unintentionally"

   Antonyms:
   advisedly, by choice, by design, purposely, designedly, on purpose, intentionally, deliberately

   Synonyms:
   by chance, unexpectedly, circumstantially, incidentally, unintentionally

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1. accidentallyadverb

   Antonyms:
   intentionally, advisedly, deliberately

   Synonyms:
   unintentionally, casually, fortuitously

How to use accidentally in a sentence?

1. Jeffrey Williams:

   Those officers were shot accidentally.

2. Douglas London:

   Donald Trump was a difficult president to support in terms of trying to give Donald Trump the information Donald Trump needed while still protecting the way we collected it so that Donald Trump wouldn't accidentally or otherwise speak off-the-cuff and mention something that an adversary could use to track down where we had an agent.

3. Joseph Ladapo:

   People need to be aware that if they're taking a benzodiazepine -- and a lot of patients are taking benzodiazepines -- and they're also prescribed an opioid, their risk of overdosing is much higher, our work shows that these patients [ taking benzodiazepines ], not only are they at higher risk of accidentally overdosing, but they are also more likely to be prescribed opioids. So they're higher risk and they're more likely to be exposed to the opioids in the first place.

4. Robert Streiffer:

   We’re in an area where information is easily twisted and distorted both on purpose and accidentally — some of it is quite complicated, the standard should be pretty narrow in terms of what kind of things are required for a candidate to disclose.

5. Mamie Mitchell:

   We had two people accidentally shot on a movie set by a prop gun, we need help immediately, we were rehearsing and it went off, and I ran out, we all ran out.

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