Synonym: automatic, compulsive, forced, instinctive, mechanical, reflex, spontaneous, unconscious, unintentional, unthinking, unwilling. Antonym: voluntary. Similar words: voluntary, volunteer, counterrevolutionary, involve, involved, convolute, convoluted, involvement. Meaning: [ɪn'vɑlənterɪ /-'vɒləntrɪ] adj. 1. not subject to the control of the will 2. controlled by the autonomic nervous system; without conscious control.
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31. Her teeth were chattering and she gave an enormous involuntary shudder.
32. The loss of potential output resulting-from involuntary unemployment is clearly a serious matter for an economy.
33. Though mirages are natural phenomena, the illusion of my standing in a dish was an involuntary product of the imagination.
34. Birds, also to some extent like mammals, have involuntary nervous controls to regulate heat; for instance, shivering.
35. This would be the case if indeed the events were involuntary hallucinations.
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36. The sedative effects of alcohol cause the throat muscle to relax too much and also interfere with the involuntary awakening mechanisms.
37. This is involuntary and undesirable and many firms will react to it by reducing output and laying off workers.
38. Yet beyond this involuntary level, she was aware of an altogether more complex reaction.
39. Many employers and social observers recognized the existence of involuntary unemployment and inadequate pay.
40. They declared: ... were involuntary witnesses of wholly unnecessary violence inflicted by uniformed Blackshirts on interrupters.
41. Over the last decade three quarters of the increase in part-time work has been involuntary.
42. Sara gave a big involuntary sigh and returned to her hairpins and rollers.
43. Even in healthy subjects the eyeball exhibits rapid, involuntary, oscillatory movements, a phenomenon called nystagmus.
44. Beneath the law of involuntary manslaughter lie some deep issues of general principle.
45. Like digestion, heart rate, respiration, or perspiration, sleep is an involuntary function of the autonomic nervous system.
46. The powerful involuntary muscle contractions are often quite distressing to the patient.
47. It would seem that involuntary affirmation could be commanded only on even more immediate and urgent grounds than silence.
48. The government was persistently unwilling to amend Poor Law principles to take account of the mounting evidence of extensive involuntary unemployment.
49. An involuntary action is set up which causes him to withdraw his hand even before he experiences any sensation of pain.
50. Belief is involuntary; nothing involuntary is meritorious or reprehensible. A man ought not to be considered worse or better for his belief. Percy Bysshe Shelley
51. Passing an amendment to end slavery and actually banishing involuntary servitude are two different things.
52. It is not surprising that involuntary unemployment may be long term.
53. I let out an involuntary gasp. Electric lights sprang on all over the ceiling in an irregular pattern.
54. The involuntary bailee does no wrong if he acts reasonably in trying to return the goods.
55. Real and money wages in the General Theory: what is involuntary unemployment?
56. The distinction between voluntary and involuntary unemployment is blurred and may affect women disproportionately.
57. To what extent does its dependence on charitable donations make it an involuntary party in the game of denial?
58. The sun dropped below the horizon, the minutes ticked by and an involuntary bivouac began to seem a possibility.
59. Payments designed to bridge periods of involuntary unemployment do provide modestly for some wholly voluntary idleness in Florida.
60. An involuntary cry had broken out of him.
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