nondeliberate

adjective

Definition of nondeliberatenext
as in nonpurposive

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nondeliberate
  1. random
  2. unintentional
  3. inadvertent
  4. haphazard
  5. accidental
  6. incidental
  7. unwitting
  8. sudden
Adjective
  • When shown random pixels, the judge guessed correctly only about 59% of the time.
    Stephen Ornes, Quanta Magazine, 8 Nov. 2024
  • So far, the only sign of anything amiss is the random Magic Marker doodle on the back of one of the many papers in Kornacki’s hands.
    Jen Chaney, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
Definition of random
Adjective
  • Don’t Count Out Employees With Special Needs Children While the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) protects parents from discrimination, biases can sometimes be unintentional.
    Rachelle Rutherford, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
  • In almost all cases, Israel has maintained that the killings journalists were unintentional.
    Yasmeen Serhan, TIME, 26 Oct. 2024
Definition of unintentional
Adjective
  • Some remembered fondly their own inadvertent artworks made by children.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Last month, the U.S. and China’s top commanders in the Indo-Pacific resumed formal communications for the first time since 2022, which is vital for avoiding inadvertent military conflict.
    Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 24 Oct. 2024
Definition of inadvertent
Adjective
  • Instead of relying on haphazard observations and product claims, the Outside Lab @ CU Denver set up an experiment to find out which travel mug keeps beverages warmest the longest.
    Adam Trenkamp, Outside Online, 10 Oct. 2024
  • At times, the company seems to police videos primarily in response to public outcry, which makes its decisions inherently haphazard and potentially malleable.
    Louise Matsakis, WIRED, 2 Mar. 2018
Definition of haphazard
Adjective
  • The defense contends the June 2022 shooting was accidental.
    Ron Wood, arkansasonline.com, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Nelson was one of the six siblings and partial siblings who were ruled to be Prince’s legal heirs after the singer died of an accidental drug overdose in 2016.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of accidental
Adjective
  • Given the rocket is not intended to land in water, whatever happened after splashdown was incidental to what can only be called a successful test flight.
    William Harwood, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2024
  • The few traces of pleasure to be found in Disclaimer are typically incidental to the action.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
Definition of incidental
Adjective
  • But the film also tells a parallel story that happened out of view of their public-facing one, in which, over a span of many years, someone posed as Tegan online and lured numerous unwitting fans into emotionally fraught relationships.
    Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Catherine is a femme fatale, and Jonathan is her unwitting prey.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 18 Oct. 2024
Definition of unwitting
Adjective
  • The reasons why election watchers may see sudden changes in Kamala Harris' or Donald Trump's standing in the most competitive states is largely influenced by two factors: how absentee ballots are processed and the population density of an area.
    Graham Kates, CBS News, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Since the intelligence agencies do not usually bother to debunk such individual bits of false propaganda, the sudden flurry of public notifications indicates the severity of the threat that U.S. spies now see in the underlying Russian plot against the election.
    The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of sudden
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Thesaurus Entries Near nondeliberate

nondeductive

nondeliberate

nondemanding

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