Accidental is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ACCIDENTAL in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a nonessential property
• A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally.
• 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.
• 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
ADJECTIVE:
• by accident
• happening by chance, unintentionally, or unexpectedly
• incidental; subsidiary
• a sign indicating a momentary departure from the key signature by raising or lowering a note
• Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; casual; fortuitous; as, an accidental visit.
• Nonessential; not necessary belonging; incidental; as, are accidental to a play.
• happening by chance or unexpectedly or unintentionally
• (in Aristotelian thought) relating to or denoting properties which are not essential to a thing's nature.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• arising from extrinsic causes; incidental, nonessential

Words related to ACCIDENTAL

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How to use ACCIDENTAL in a sentence

• He formed the opinion from the first that these meetings between Sir Horace and the lady were not accidental.
• Definite variations from within, modified between narrow limits by accidental variation from without, is coming to be acknowledged as the chief factor of progress.
• The similarity between our large white Pomeranian and the Samoyede is too great to be accidental.
• If you look upon it as accidental on your part, and thoughtlessness on his, it will feel easier to forgive him perhaps, and I am sure you may.
• They were, however, very cool, and I felt little danger of an accidental discharge of their weapons.
• The more evidently accidental their introduction, the more trivial they are in themselves, the more they take hold of the imagination.
• I just tell you the fact, proving that it cannot be accidental.
• Or you wrote perhaps in an accidental mood of most excellent critical smoothness, such as Mr.
• In 1895, the accidental meeting with a priest from Guatemala led to my making a journey to Central America.
• But I never once have been injured by one of them except perhaps an accidental stepping on my foot.
• In every scene many of the most brilliant details are but accidental.
• The omission of a signature 51 is accidental, the text continuing without a break.
• The fountain beyond the Moss Islands I discovered for myself, and thought it for some time an accidental beauty which it would not do to leave, lest I might never see it again.
• Accidental harmonies sometimes appear on the weak beat.
• And that is precisely what Darwin means when he says that species arise out of accidental variations.
• IN 1876, circumstances, partly accidental and partly sentimental, led me to revisit Crooked Creek Church, near the little village of Rockville, in Middle Georgia.
• In this sense the word means the evidences left by a passing body of Indians, the casual and accidental record of passage.
• They think that divinity is accidental, for to them divinity is dependent upon existing things whereas in reality as long as there has been a God there has been a creation.
• Within the art of poetry itself there are two kinds of faults, those which touch its essence, and those which are accidental.
• As I sat engaged in conversation with the woman of the house and this accidental guest, an unmistakable American face met my eyes, as I raised them to the opposite wall.
• We were beyond the vigilance of sentinels, and could be discovered now only through some accidental encounter.
• It is of accidental value, and not of integral necessity.
• From these reports and accidental circumstances, the same conclusion became evolved for me.
• Then he crossed over to Manchester, where he arrived but a few weeks previous to the date of his accidental arrest in Oak-street.
• Some accidental circumstance induced the Manhattanese to call a certain enclosure the Park.
• The accidental roughness of the symbol did not touch him, for the symbol was glorified by the sincerity of his faith and the compass of his imagination.
• The press, with its infinite variety of content and expression, represents what is most transient, particular, and accidental in human opinion.
• The folio in this place agrees with the quarto, so that the corruption was at first merely accidental.
• This part of his character is accidental, the rest is natural.

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