Word Meanings - INCIDENTAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Happening, as an occasional event, without regularity; coming without design; casual; accidental; hence, not of prime concern; subordinate; collateral; as, an incidental conversation; an incidental occurrence; incidental expenses. By some, religious
Additional info about word: INCIDENTAL
Happening, as an occasional event, without regularity; coming without design; casual; accidental; hence, not of prime concern; subordinate; collateral; as, an incidental conversation; an incidental occurrence; incidental expenses. By some, religious duties . . . appear to be regarded . . . as an incidental business. Rogers. Syn. -- Accidental; casual; fortuitous; contingent; chance; collateral. See Accidental. -- In`cen*den"tal*ly, adv. -- In`cen*den"tal*ness, n. I treat either or incidentally of colors. Boyle.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INCIDENTAL)
- Contingent
- Dependent
- incidental
- resultant
- co-emcient
- hypothetical
- uncertain
- conditional
- Lateral
- Indirect
- oblique
- secondary
- collateral
- deviative
- additive
- parallel
- adjunctive
Related words: (words related to INCIDENTAL)
- CONTINGENT
Dependent for effect on something that may or may not occur; as, a contingent estate. If a contingent legacy be left to any one when he attains, or if he attains, the age of twenty-one. Blackstone. (more info) touch on all sides, to happen; con- - ADDITIVE
Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive. - CONDITIONALITY
The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms. - LATERAL
Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from the mesial plane; external; -- opposed to mesial. 3. Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing. Lateral cleavage , cleavage parallel to the lateral planes. -- Lateral equation - OBLIQUENESS
Quality or state of being oblique. - LATERALLY
By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side. - CONDITIONAL
Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense. A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another. Whately. The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . . - ADJUNCTIVELY
In an adjunctive manner. - UNCERTAINTY
1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange. - ADJUNCTIVE
Joining; having the quality of joining; forming an adjunct. - DEPENDENT
1. Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf. 2. Relying on, or subject to, something else for support; not able to exist, or sustain itself, or to perform anything, without the will, power, or aid of something else; not self-sustaining; - PARALLELOGRAMMIC; PARALLELOGRAMMICAL
Having the properties of a parallelogram. - PARALLEL SULCUS
A sulcus parallel to, but some distance below, the horizontal limb of the fissure of Sylvius. - UNCERTAINLY
In an uncertain manner. - COLLATERALLY
1. Side by side; by the side. These pulleys . . . placed collaterally. Bp. Wilkins. 2. In an indirect or subordinate manner; indirectly. The will hath force upon the conscience collaterally and indirectly. Jer. Taylor. 3. In collateral relation; - PARALLELIZE
To render parallel. - PARALLELABLE
Capable of being paralleled, or equaled. Bp. Hall. - INDIRECTNESS
1. The quality or state of being indirect; obliquity; deviousness; crookedness. 2. Deviation from an upright or straightforward course; unfairness; dishonesty. W. Montagu. - INDIRECTION
Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness. "By indirections find directions out." Shak. - LATERALITY
The state or condition of being lateral. - INTERDEPENDENT
Mutually dependent. - PLANE-PARALLEL
Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and parallel, as a piece of glass. - INCONDITIONAL
Unconditional. Sir T. Browne. - UNCONDITIONAL
Not conditional limited, or conditioned; made without condition; absolute; unreserved; as, an unconditional surrender. O, pass not, Lord, an absolute decree, Or bind thy sentence unconditional. Dryden. -- Un`con*di"tion*al*ly, adv. - ANTIPARALLEL
Running in a contrary direction. Hammond.