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Definition of involuntarily in English: involuntarilyadverb ɪnˈvɒlənt(ə)rɪliɪnˈvɑlənˌtɛrəli 1Without will or conscious control. she shuddered involuntarily at the memory Example sentencesExamples - Everything happens quite involuntarily, as if in a tempestuous outburst of freedom, of absoluteness, of power and divinity.
- His study shows that those with high hypochondriacal tendencies were more likely to involuntarily focus on anthrax-related stimuli.
- Her mouth involuntarily smiles at the infants.
- The thought of this produces an involuntarily queasy response.
- Sensations come to me involuntarily.
- The right eye of Patient A suddenly rushed back and forwards involuntarily, and he was left with a large translucent object in his central field of vision.
- A violent report caused the watchers to flinch involuntarily, and after a second or so of quietness, the pattering of falling fragments was heard.
- It unsettles the waiter so badly that he involuntarily staggers into the stack and knocks the glasses over.
- I felt my legs move involuntarily, as though possessed of times past, and a feverish flush tingled in my limbs.
- We compared brain activity during involuntarily laughing while watching a movie scene to that during faked laughter watching an unfunny scene of the same movie.
2Against someone's will; without someone's cooperation. Alicia had her husband involuntarily hospitalized Example sentencesExamples - They may have been hospitalized involuntarily or given treatment services or medications they did not feel were of benefit.
- These unemployed are hardly "involuntarily" out of work.
- Any loose ends, like surviving victims, are involuntarily "incorporated" into the village.
- In virtually any society, individuals are involuntarily subject to certain risks over which they have little of no control.
- Under the act, some agricultural quotas will be involuntarily eliminated under a 10-year buyout program.
- The court must judge whether a choice is so onerous that the parties entered the contract involuntarily.
- He has been involuntarily committed to a psychiatric clinic by his sister, who believes him to be exhibiting aberrant behavior.
- It's very different from being cool, but the path out is the same whether you got there voluntarily or involuntarily.
- The man withdrew funds from his IRA and was later involuntarily committed to an alcohol abuse clinic.
- The proportion of involuntarily underemployed persons rose strongly (by more than three percentage points).
Definition of involuntarily in US English: involuntarilyadverbinˈvälənˌterəlēɪnˈvɑlənˌtɛrəli 1Without will or conscious control. she shuddered involuntarily at the memory Example sentencesExamples - Everything happens quite involuntarily, as if in a tempestuous outburst of freedom, of absoluteness, of power and divinity.
- We compared brain activity during involuntarily laughing while watching a movie scene to that during faked laughter watching an unfunny scene of the same movie.
- Her mouth involuntarily smiles at the infants.
- It unsettles the waiter so badly that he involuntarily staggers into the stack and knocks the glasses over.
- Sensations come to me involuntarily.
- The thought of this produces an involuntarily queasy response.
- The right eye of Patient A suddenly rushed back and forwards involuntarily, and he was left with a large translucent object in his central field of vision.
- A violent report caused the watchers to flinch involuntarily, and after a second or so of quietness, the pattering of falling fragments was heard.
- I felt my legs move involuntarily, as though possessed of times past, and a feverish flush tingled in my limbs.
- His study shows that those with high hypochondriacal tendencies were more likely to involuntarily focus on anthrax-related stimuli.
2Against someone's will; without someone's cooperation. Alicia had her husband involuntarily hospitalized Example sentencesExamples - The proportion of involuntarily underemployed persons rose strongly (by more than three percentage points).
- The court must judge whether a choice is so onerous that the parties entered the contract involuntarily.
- They may have been hospitalized involuntarily or given treatment services or medications they did not feel were of benefit.
- These unemployed are hardly "involuntarily" out of work.
- It's very different from being cool, but the path out is the same whether you got there voluntarily or involuntarily.
- He has been involuntarily committed to a psychiatric clinic by his sister, who believes him to be exhibiting aberrant behavior.
- In virtually any society, individuals are involuntarily subject to certain risks over which they have little of no control.
- Under the act, some agricultural quotas will be involuntarily eliminated under a 10-year buyout program.
- Any loose ends, like surviving victims, are involuntarily "incorporated" into the village.
- The man withdrew funds from his IRA and was later involuntarily committed to an alcohol abuse clinic.
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