It means happening by accident or happening as an accident, as in an accidental discovery and an accidental injury. Accidental and incidental can both mean something happening by chance, but usage suggests that accidental also implies an element of carelessness or inattention while incidental implies the occurrence would have happened with or without attention or care. Happening by chance or accident
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Happening or existing by chance
A sign showing that there is a temporary change from the… Accidental primarily refers to what occurs by chance It can also mean subordinate or nonessential Poetry is something to which words are the accidental, not by any means the essential form (frederick w
An accidental event happens by chance or as the result of an accident, and is not deliberately intended The jury returned a verdict of accidental death His hand brushed against hers It could have been either accidental or deliberate.
Definition of accidental adjective in oxford advanced learner's dictionary
Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more. The adjective version of this word is accidental, and they are both derived from the word accident, which means an unfortunate event that was unintended The word accident can be traced to medieval english, when it was probably borrowed from medieval french. Some common synonyms of accidental are casual, contingent, and fortuitous
While all these words mean not amenable to planning or prediction, accidental stresses chance.
