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Another word for accidental

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accidental

modif.

Happening by chance
chance, fortuitous, coincidental, unintentional, inadvertent, unplanned, unpremeditated, undesigned, unwitting, uncalculated, unintended, unanticipated, unforeseen, unexpected, casual, adventitious, random, haphazard, involuntary, lucky, unlucky, serendipitous, fluky*; see also unexpected.
Incidental
incidental, secondary, nonessential, adventitious; see subordinate, under 3.

accidental describes that which occurs by chance an accidental encounter or outside the normal course of events an accidental attribute; fortuitous, which frequently suggests a complete absence of cause, now usually refers to chance events of a fortunate nature; casual describes the unpremeditated, random, or irregular quality of something a casual remark, a casual visit or its informality casual clothes; incidental emphasizes the nonessential or secondary nature of something incidental expenses; adventitious refers to that which is added extrinsically and connotes a lack of essential connection

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Another word for accidental

adjective

Occurring unexpectedly:

casual, chance, contingent, fluky, fortuitous, inadvertent, odd. See surprise

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An accidental circumstance, however, occurred at this moment which largely affected his future.
This involves a loss of accuracy because, with a spiderline micrometer, the accidental error of pointing is of the order of o I" of arc.
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He cast down his eyes and hurried out as if it were none of his business, careful as he went not to inflict any accidental injury on the young lady.
The name is often in popular literature written Cambalu, and is by Longfellow accented in verse Cambeilic. But this spelling originates in an accidental error in Ramusio's Italian version, which was the chief channel through which Marco Polo's book was popularly known.

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