Thesaurus:accidental
English
Adjective
Sense: happening by chance or unexpectedly
Synonyms
- accidental
- accidentary (obsolete)
- adventitious
- by accident
- by the by
- casual
- causeless
- chanceable (obsolete)
- fortuitous
- incidental
- lippening (UK dialect)
- occasional
- random
- serendipitous
- unforeseen
- unintended
- unintentional [⇒ thesaurus]
- unplanned
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Further reading
- “156. chance” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “accidental” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.