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incidental

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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: 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: beside the point
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: not pertaining to

Synonyms:

beside the question, extraneous, immaterial, inapplicable, incidental, inconsequential, insignificant, irrelevant, nihil ad rem, not at issue, not important, not to the purpose, off the subject, pointless, unimportant, unrelated, wide of the mark, wide of the point
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: coincidental
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: accidental

Synonyms:

casual, chance, circumstantial, fluky, fortuitous, incidental, unintentional, unplanned

Antonyms:

decided, deliberate, designed, planned
Main Entry: concurrent
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: simultaneous

Synonyms:

circumstantial, coeval, coexisting, coincident, concerted, concomitant, contemporaneous, in sync, incidental, parallel, synchronal, synchronous
Main Entry: conditional
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dependent

Synonyms:

codicillary, contingent, depending on, fortuitous, granted on certain terms, guarded, iffy, incidental, inconclusive, limited, modified, not absolute, obscure, provisional, provisory, qualified, relative, reliant, relying on, restricted, restrictive, subject to, tentative, uncertain, with grain of salt, with reservations, with strings attached

Antonyms:

independent, unconditional, unlimited, unqualified, unrestricted
Main Entry: contingent
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: conditional; possible

Synonyms:

accidental, casual, chance, controlled by, dependent, fluky, fortuitous, haphazard, incidental, likely, odd, probable, probably, random, subject to, unanticipated, uncertain, unexpected, unforeseeable, unforeseen, unpredictable

Antonyms:

certain, definite, real, sure, truthful, unconditional
Main Entry: episodic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: intermittent; composed of several tales

Synonyms:

anecdotal, digressive, disconnected, discursive, disjointed, incidental, irregular, occasional, picaresque, rambling, roundabout, segmented, soap opera, sporadic, wandering

Antonyms:

connected, lasting, permanent, regular, unbroken
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