| Main Entry: | coincidental |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | accidental |
Synonyms: |
casual, chance, circumstantial, fluky, fortuitous, incidental, unintentional, unplanned |
Antonyms: |
decided, deliberate, designed, planned |
| 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: | circumstantial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | incidental |
Synonyms: |
amplified, coincidental, concomitant, concurrent, conjectural, contingent, detailed, environmental, fortuitous, inconclusive, indirect, inferential, presumptive, provisional, uncertain |
Antonyms: |
direct |
| Main Entry: | concomitant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | contributing, accompanying |
Synonyms: |
accessory, adjuvant, agreeing, ancillary, associated with, associative, attendant, attending, belonging, coefficient, coetaneous, coeval, coexistent, coincident, coincidental, collateral, complementary, concordant, concurrent, conjoined, conjoined with, connected, contemporaneous, contemporary, coordinate, corollary, coterminous, coupled with, fellow, in tempo, in time, incident, isochronal, isochronous, joint, satellite, synchronal, synchronous, synergetic, synergistic |
Antonyms: |
accidental, chance, unrelated |
| Main Entry: | congruous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | corresponding, suitable |
Synonyms: |
accordant, appropriate, apt, becoming, coincidental, compatible, concordant, congruent, consistent, consonant, correspondent, fit, fitting, harmonious, meet, proper, seemly, sympathetic |
Antonyms: |
disagreeing, incongruous, unfitting, unharmonious, unsuitable |
| Main Entry: | fluky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | chance |
Synonyms: |
accidental, casual, chancy, coincidental, contingent, fortuitous, incalculable, incidental, lucky, odd, uncertain, variable |
Antonyms: |
certain, designed, planned, sure |
| 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: | similar |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very much alike |
Synonyms: |
agnate, akin, allied, analogous, coincident, coincidental, coinciding, collateral, companion, comparable, complementary, congruent, congruous, consonant, consubstantial, correlative, corresponding, homogeneous, identical, in agreement, kin, kindred, like, matching, much the same, parallel, reciprocal, related, resembling, same, twin, uniform |
Antonyms: |
alien, different, dissimilar, opposite, unalike, unlike |
| Main Entry: | overlapping |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | coinciding |
Synonyms: |
coincidental, extending, overlying, projecting, protruding, super-imposed |
| Main Entry: | supervenient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | incidental |
Synonyms: |
accidental, accompanying, adscititious, 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 |