incident

Meaning

Noun

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

Adj

1. (not-comparable) Arising as the result of an event, inherent.
2. (not-comparable) Falling on or striking a surface.
3. (not-comparable) 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. (not-comparable) Liable to happen; apt to occur; befalling; hence, naturally happening or appertaining.
5. (not-comparable) Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal.
6. (not-comparable) In a relation of incidence

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

Translations

incident

Vorfall

incidente

Ereignis

incidente

Begebenheit

voorval

Zwischenfall

événement

olay

gebeurtenis

caso

🎲

avvenimento

suceso

episodio

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 .