accidental

Adj

1. Pertaining to accident and not essence; thus, inessential; incidental; secondary.
2. Pertaining to accident and not essence; thus, inessential; incidental; secondary.
3. Adjusted by one or two semitones, in temporary departure from the key signature.
4. Occurring sometimes, by chance; occasional.
5. Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; by accident, unintentional.
6. Being a double point with two distinct tangent planes in 4-dimensional projective space.

Noun

1. A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally.
2. (plural, plural-only) Those fortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow.
3. A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note.
4. Part of a text that has a mainly structural purpose, such as spelling, punctuation, or capitalization.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˌæk.sɪ.ˈdɛn.tl̩/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: accidental

In summary

From Middle English accidental, from Anglo-Norman accidentel, Middle French accidentel, accidental, and their source, Late Latin accidēntālis; corresponding to accident + -al.

Synonyms

casual

random

chance

🎲

fortuitous

unexpected

incidental

unintentional

inadvertent

unforeseen

adventitious

contingent

arbitrary

haphazard

occasional

coincidental

sudden

stray

mistaken

circumstantial

unintended

scratch

nonessential

involuntary

regrettably

sadly

secondary

separable

serendipitous

sporadic

stochastic

unfortunately

unhappily

unheralded

unmeant

unplanned

unpredictable

unpremeditated

untoward

unusual

unwitting

aleatoric

any given

uninentional

on a whim

sudden outbreak

shame

produced by some cause

sent from heaven

not substantial

noninflicted

Translations

accidentel

accidental

accidentale

acidental

zufällig

toevallig

fortuit

fortuito

casuale

🎲

przypadkowy

accidental

incidenteel

casual

fortuito

🎲

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