| Main Entry: | adventitious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | from outside |
Synonyms: |
accidental, casual, extrinsic, foreign, fortuitous, nonessential |
| Main Entry: | accidental |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happening unexpectedly |
Synonyms: |
adventitious, casual, chance, coincidental, contingent, fluky, fortuitous, inadvertent, incidental, random, uncalculated, unexpected, unforeseen, unintended, unintentional, unplanned |
| Notes: | accidental stresses chance; fortuitous so strongly suggests chance that it often connotes absence of cause |
Antonyms: |
decided, designed, essential, intended, intentional, planned, premeditated |
| Main Entry: | casual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | chance, random |
Synonyms: |
accidental, adventitious, by chance, contingent, erratic, extemporaneous, extempore, fluky, fortuitous, impromptu, improvised, impulsive, incidental, infrequent, irregular, occasional, odd, offhand, serendipitous, spontaneous, uncertain, unexpected, unforeseen, unintentional, unplanned, unpremeditated |
Antonyms: |
deliberate, painstaking, planned, premeditated |
| Main Entry: | chance |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | accidental, unforeseeable |
Synonyms: |
adventitious, at random, casual, contingent, fluky, fortuitous, fortunate, happy, inadvertent, incidental, lucky, odd, offhand, unforeseen, unintentional, unlooked for, unplanned |
Antonyms: |
designed, foreseeable, planned, understood |
| Main Entry: | extraneous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unneeded; irrevelant |
Synonyms: |
accidental, additional, adventitious, beside the point, extra, foreign, immaterial, impertinent, inadmissible, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, incidental, inessential, needless, nonessential, off the subject, peripheral, pointless, redundant, superfluous, supplementary, unconnected, unessential, unnecessary, unrelated |
Antonyms: |
appropriate, basic, essential, integral, necessary, needed, pertinent, relevant |
| Main Entry: | extraneous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | foreign |
Synonyms: |
adventitious, alien, exotic, external, extrinsic, out of place, strange |
Antonyms: |
national, native |
| Main Entry: | foreign |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irrelevant |
Synonyms: |
accidental, adventitious, extraneous, extrinsic, heterogeneous, immaterial, impertinent, inapposite, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, irrelative, repugnant, unassimilable, uncharacteristic, unrelated |
Antonyms: |
characteristic, familiar, known, regular, relevant |
| Main Entry: | incidental |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | related; minor |
Synonyms: |
accidental, accompanying, adventitious, ancillary, attendant, by-the-way, casual, chance, circumstantial, coincidental, concomitant, concurrent, contingent, contributing, contributory, fluke, fortuitous, irregular, nonessential, occasional, odd, random, secondary, subordinate, subsidiary |
Antonyms: |
basic, essential, fundamental, important, vital |
| Main Entry: | lucky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fortunate, opportune |
Synonyms: |
advantageous, adventitious, all systems go, auspicious, beneficial, benign, blessed, charmed, coming up roses, everything going, favored, felicitous, fortuitous, getting a break, golden, happy, hit it big, holding aces, hopeful, hot*, in the groove, into something, on a roll, on a streak, promising, propitious, prosperous, providential, serendipitous, striking it rich, successful, timely, well |
Antonyms: |
bad, inopportune, unfortunate, unlucky, unpropitious, unsuccessful |
| Main Entry: | possible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | likely, attainable |
Synonyms: |
accessible, achievable, adventitious, advisable, available, breeze*, can do, cinch, conceivable, credible, dependent, desirable, doable, dormant, duck soup, easy as pie, expedient, feasible, fortuitous, hopeful, hypothetical, imaginable, indeterminate, latent, no sweat, obtainable, piece of cake, potential, practicable, probable, promising, pushover, realizable, setup, simple as ABC, snap, thinkable, uncertain, viable, welcome, within reach, workable |
Antonyms: |
impossible, unattainable, ungettable, unlikely, unrealizable |