What are some opposite words for accidental?
Antonyms for accidental
ˌæk sɪˈdɛn tlac·ci·den·tal
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term accidental.
Wiktionary
accidentaladjective
Synonyms:
fortuitous, adventitious, incidental, contingent, casual, occasionalaccidentaladjective
Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; casual; fortuitous
an accidental visit
Synonyms:
incidental, casual, fortuitous, adventitious, occasional, contingentaccidentaladjective
Nonessential; not necessary belonging; incidental
are accidental to a play
Synonyms:
contingent, adventitious, fortuitous, incidental, casual, occasionalaccidentaladjective
Foreign to the key signature or a proper harmony.
Synonyms:
incidental, occasional, adventitious, contingent, fortuitous, casual
English Synonyms and Antonyms
accidental
Antonyms:
congenital, essential, immanent, inborn, inbred, indispensable, indwelling, infixed, ingrained, inherent, inhering, innate, inseparable, internal, intrinsic, inwrought, native, natural, subjectiveSynonyms:
casual, external, extrinsic, fortuitous, incidental, outward, subsidiary, superadded, superficial, superfluous, superimposed, supplemental, transient, unconnected
Princeton's WordNet
accidentaladjective
a musical notation that makes a note sharp or flat or natural although that is not part of the key signature
Antonyms:
intendedaccidental, inadvertentadjective
happening by chance or unexpectedly or unintentionally
"with an inadvertent gesture she swept the vase off the table"; "accidental poisoning"; "an accidental shooting"
Antonyms:
intendedSynonyms:
inadvertent
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
accidentaladjective
Synonyms:
casual, fortuitous, incidental, nonessential, adventitious
How to use accidental in a sentence?
Someone went through great lengths in this case, we believe, to stage an accidental drowning, it is clear that the person or persons involved had an intimate relationship with Edith Sax, that they knew intricacies concerning the home and her schedule.
Know you are consistently being exposed [ and ] consistently under threat -- not necessarily through any fault of your own but accidental disclosures by companies or carelessness by companies. It requires us in the modern era to be vigilant consistently.
The working theory is currently that this exposure was accidental, rather than a second attack along the lines of that on Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury earlier this year.
Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers
Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers.
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#759 | natural | |
#1573 | internal | |
#2131 | essential | |
#2193 | intended | |
#2290 | native | |
#9987 | subjective | |
#10683 | inherent | |
#11733 | accidental | |
#14490 | intrinsic | |
#17954 | congenital | |
#18563 | indispensable | |
#25535 | innate | |
#26448 | inbred | |
#40838 | inseparable | |
#52940 | ingrained | |
#65503 | inborn | |
#71087 | indwelling | |
#86054 | immanent |
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