accident

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences, and (in the strict sense) not directly caused by humans.
2. (countable, uncountable) An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences, and (in the strict sense) not directly caused by humans.
3. (countable, uncountable) A collision or crash of a vehicle, aircraft, or other form of transportation that causes damage to the transportation involved; and sometimes injury or death to the transportation's occupants or bystanders in close proximity. (but see Usage notes)
4. (countable, uncountable) Any chance event.
5. (uncountable) Chance; random chance.
6. (countable, uncountable) Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential or nonsubstantive.
7. (countable, uncountable) Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential or nonsubstantive.
8. (countable, euphemistic, uncountable) An instance of incontinence.
9. (countable, euphemistic, uncountable) An instance of incontinence.
10. (countable, euphemistic, uncountable) An unintended pregnancy.
11. (countable, derogatory, euphemistic, humorous, uncountable) An unintended pregnancy.
12. (countable, uncountable) An irregular surface feature with no apparent cause.
13. (countable, uncountable) A sudden discontinuity of ground such as fault of great thickness, bed or lentil of unstable ground.
14. (countable, uncountable) A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.

Adj

Designating any form of transportation involved in an accident.

Synonyms

disaster

misfortune

mishap

calamity

misadventure

chance

🎲

casualty

incident

fortuity

crash

catastrophe

mischance

emergency

coincidence

mistake

bad luck

death

💀

adversity

occurrence

fate

collision

💥

misery

wreck

trouble

injury

damage

blunder

sorrow

fatality

failure

problem

danger

❗

stroke

woe

distress

abnormality

breakdown

chance event

hazard

accidence

detriment

crisis

shipwreck

haphazard

risk

wound

malfunction

luck

🍀

event

error

unhappiness

unexpectedness

contingency

mischief

misfortunes

mishaps

missing

mutate

mutation

natural disaster

natural resin

out of order

peradventure

pile

quirk

randomness

reasons

ruin

saltation

smash

stab

stoppage

strike

suddenly

suffering

suggest

surprise

tough luck

traffic

tragedy

undoing

unexpectedly

unluckiness

uprising

urgency

wrecked

fatal accident

something wrong

unexpected occurrence

rare possibility

casus

grief

mortality

pain

safety

evil deeds

accidental encounter

great calamity

acc

chance failure

fortuitous event

accidental event

casual event

ear. mishap

operation irregularity

unexpected accident

malfortune

aberration

loss at sea

act of God

adventure

an

average

break-down

bruise

bug

🐛

bump

buskin

by chance

case

casualness

cataclysm

change

circumstances

colliding

concussion

conk

contingent

corrugation

crackup

cut

defect

destiny

difficulty

discontinuity

disgrace

disturbance

dying

epidemic

eventuality

evil

fatalities

fault

fluke

fold

folding

form

gratuitous

hap

happening

have

hecatomb

hit

hitch

hurt

ill luck

impact

impairment

inaction

laceration

lesion

Translations

accident

Unfall

accidente

Unglück

ongeval

ongeluk

Zufall

🎲

kaza

Missgeschick

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈæksɪdənt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: accident

In summary

First attested in the late 14th century. From Middle English accident, from Old French accident, from Latin accidēns, present active participle of accidō (“happen”); from ad (“to”) + cadō (“fall”). See cadence, case. In the sense “unintended pregnancy”, first attested in 1932.

Sentences

He could destroy you quite by accident .