inadvertent
in-ud-VUR-tuntadjMeaning done by accident, without meaning to
Memory hook eyes IN the AD: a bump not meant. Sami’s eyes are on the ad on the sign, not on the path, so he bumps a fruit cart. The bump is inadvertent: he did not mean it.
One inadvertent tap on the screen sent Grandpa’s message to the whole family instead of just to Nana Lou.
In context The spill was inadvertent; Dev had been watching the ball game on the screen, not his glass, when his elbow tipped it over.
Similar accidental, unintentional, unplanned, unwitting
Opposite deliberate, intentional, planned
From inadvertence, from Medieval Latin inadvertentia: in- (not) + Latin advertere, “to turn toward,” as in turning your mind toward something.