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accidental
adjective
Synonyms and Antonyms of ACCIDENTAL
1
happening by chance <finding the gold was all the more remarkable because its discovery was entirely accidental>
Synonyms casual, chance, fluky (also flukey), fortuitous, inadvertent, incidental, unintended, unintentional, unplanned, unpremeditated, unwitting
Related Words coincidental; freak, odd; aimless, arbitrary, desultory, haphazard, random; uncertain, unexpected, unforeseeable, unforeseen; coerced, forced, involuntary; unconscious, unprompted
Near Antonyms certain, destined, expected, fixed, foreordained, foreseeable, foreseen, inevitable, predestined, predetermined, predictable, preordained, prescribed, sure; conscious, freewill, knowing, unforced, voluntary, volunteer, willful (or wilful)
Antonyms calculated, deliberate, intended, intentional, planned, premeditated, premeditative, prepense, set
2
not being a vital part of or belonging to something <we're considering the painting's merit as a work of art, its commercial value being entirely accidental as far as we're concerned>
Related Words exterior, outside; immaterial, inapplicable, insignificant, irrelevant; nonessential, unessential, unnecessary
Near Antonyms congenital, deep-seated, inborn, inbred; inside, interior, internal; basic, essential, necessary
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