Synonyms for incidental
ˌɪn sɪˈdɛn tlin·ci·den·tal

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1. incidental

   Synonyms:
   accidental, casual, external, extrinsic, fortuitous, outward, subsidiary, superadded, superficial, superfluous, superimposed, supplemental, transient, unconnected

   Antonyms:
   congenital, essential, immanent, inborn, inbred, indispensable, indwelling, infixed, ingrained, inherent, inhering, innate, inseparable, internal, intrinsic, inwrought, native, natural, subjective

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1. incidental

   Synonyms:
   casual, occasional, appertinent, concomitant, concurrent, accidental, fortuitous

   Antonyms:
   systematic, regular, independent, disconnected, irrelative, essential, immanent, inherent, uniform, invariable

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1. incidental expense, incidental, minor expensenoun

   (frequently plural) an expense not budgeted or not specified

   "he requested reimbursement of $7 for incidental expenses"

   Synonyms:
   incidental expense, minor expense

   Antonyms:
   elemental, radical, primary, antecedent, fundamental, basal, essential, base, elementary, underlying, grassroots, rudimentary, basic

2. incidentaladjective

   an item that is incidental

   Synonyms:
   incidental expense, minor expense

   Antonyms:
   base, rudimentary, essential, basal, grassroots, underlying, fundamental, elementary, elemental, primary, radical, basic, antecedent

3. incidental, incidentadjective

   (sometimes followed by `to') minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence

   "incidental expenses"; "the road will bring other incidental advantages"; "extra duties incidental to the job"; "labor problems incidental to a rapid expansion"; "confusion incidental to a quick change"

   Synonyms:
   accompanying, ensuant, sequent, incident, consequent, resultant, attendant, nonessential, concomitant

   Antonyms:
   basal, elemental, antecedent, base, primary, essential, radical, elementary, grassroots, fundamental, underlying, basic, rudimentary

4. incidental, nonessentialadjective

   not of prime or central importance

   "nonessential to the integral meanings of poetry"- Pubs.MLA

   Synonyms:
   accompanying, ensuant, sequent, incident, consequent, resultant, attendant, nonessential, concomitant

   Antonyms:
   rudimentary, radical, elementary, elemental, grassroots, fundamental, antecedent, primary, underlying, basal, basic, base, essential

5. attendant, consequent, accompanying, concomitant, incidental, ensuant, resultant, sequentadjective

   following or accompanying as a consequence

   "an excessive growth of bureaucracy, with attendant problems"; "snags incidental to the changeover in management"; "attendant circumstances"; "the period of tension and consequent need for military preparedness"; "the ensuant response to his appeal"; "the resultant savings were considerable"

   Synonyms:
   accompanying, ensuant, consecutive, sequent, incident, consequent, attendant, resultant, nonessential, serial, successive, concomitant, sequential

   Antonyms:
   elemental, essential, base, antecedent, fundamental, radical, rudimentary, underlying, elementary, basal, primary, grassroots, basic

Matched Categories

1. • Expense

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1. incidentaladjective

   Synonyms:
   accidental, casual, fortuitous, contingent

2. incidentaladjective

   Synonyms:
   occasional, adventitious, extraneous, non-essential

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1. incidentaladjective

   Synonyms:
   casual, accidental, oontingent, fortuitous, subordinate, collateral, accessory

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1. List of paraphrases for "incidental":

   accidental, accessory, ancillary, accessories, fringe, spin-off, incidentals, by-catch, adventitious, fortuitous, unintentional, casual, occasional, collateral, false, miscellaneous, inadvertent, fittings, secondary, fake, props, bycatch

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1. Peace Pilgrim:

   Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.

2. Sorel Vorster:

   The main concern about this condition is we want to warn patients that they shouldn’t go for surgery just because they have a report from the radiologist that states Chiari because it doesn’t always require treatment, very often Chiari is an incidental finding and if they don’t need immediate surgery we caution against it.

3. Susan Rice:

   I know nothing about this, i was surprised to see reports from Chairman Nunes on that count today … So today, I really don’t know to what Chairman Nunes on that count was referring. But Chairman Nunes on that count said that whatever Chairman Nunes on that count was referring to was a legal, lawful surveillance and that it was potentially incidental collection on American citizens.

4. Adam Schiff:

   After much consideration, and in light of the Chairman's admission that he met with his source of information at the White House, I believe that the Chairman should recuse himself from any further involvement in the Russia investigation, as well as any involvement in oversight of matters pertaining to any incidental collection of the Trump transition, as he was also a key member of the transition team.

5. Devin Nunes:

   This is a normal, incidental collection, based on what I could collect, this appears to be all legally collected foreign intelligence under.