Meaning

4 senses
  1. A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally.

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  2. (plural, plural only)Those fortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow.

  3. A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note.

    a musical notation that makes a note sharp or flat or natural although that is not part of the key signature

  4. Part of a text that has a mainly structural purpose, such as spelling, punctuation, or capitalization.

Examples

41 sentences
  1. Do you think this was accidental?

  2. My meeting Tom was purely accidental.

  3. Do you think the shooting was accidental?

  4. The timing was accidental.

  5. The timing wasn't accidental.

Translations

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By meaning 1
a property which is not essential:

Origin

From Middle English accidental, from Anglo-Norman accidentel, Middle French accidentel, ac

From Middle English accidental, from Anglo-Norman accidentel, Middle French accidentel, accidental, and their source, Late Latin accidēntālis; corresponding to accident + -al.

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Forms

plural: accidentals
Singularaccidental
Pluralaccidentals

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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