incident

Meaning

Noun

1. An event or occurrence.
2. A (relatively minor) event that is incidental to, or related to others.
3. An event that causes or may cause an interruption or a crisis, such as a workplace illness or a software error.

Adj

1. Arising as the result of an event, inherent.
2. Falling on or striking a surface.
3. Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course of things; not in connection with the main design; not according to expectation; casual; fortuitous.
4. Liable to happen; apt to occur; befalling; hence, naturally happening or appertaining.
5. Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal.

Synonyms

event

occurrence

happening

accident

occasion

affair

episode

case

chance

🎲

trouble

emergency

disaster

phenomenon

failure

contingency

fortuity

incidental

disturbance

instance

circumstance

experience

luck

🍀

occurence

coincidence

conflict

thing

incidence

example

misadventure

occurrent

passage

pester

plot

problem

prospective

reasons

relate

scandal

scene

skirmish

strife

subliterary

tell story

unexpectedness

unpleasantness

uprising

accessorial

eisodic

development

extraordinary occurrence

embryotic

act

adventure

afferent

anecdote

associated

attached

casualty

cause

change

changing

circumstances

coming

concurrence

confrontation

crisis

deed

destiny

elect

epidemic

fate

fluke

future

haphazard

imminent

incoming

matter

matters

Translations

incident

Vorfall

Ereignis

incidente

Begebenheit

Zwischenfall

événement

voorval

gebeurtenis

suceso

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɪn.sɪ.dənt/

Etymology

Recorded since 1412, from Middle French incident, from Latin incidens, the present active participle of incidō (“to happen, befall”), itself from in- (“on”) + -cidō, the combining form of cadō (“to fall”).

Sentences

Class was dismissed due to a freak incident caused by a chemical spill .