adjective
- not planned or meant to happen; accidental
Examples
- The medication had several unintended side effects.
- His joke had the unintended consequence of offending his friend.
- The new policy created unintended problems for small businesses.
- She made an unintended error while copying the data.
- The software update caused unintended changes to the user interface.
- His unintended comment revealed the surprise party plans.
- The experiment produced unintended results that surprised the researchers.