Adventitious is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ADVENTITIOUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• coming from another source; arising or occurring sporadically or in other than the usual location
• happening as a result of an external factor or chance rather than design or inherent nature
• coming from outside; not native
• formed accidentally or in an unusual anatomical position
• (of a root, shoot, etc.) produced in an unusual part of a plant.
• Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign.
• Out of the proper or usual place; as, adventitious buds or roots.
• Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied to foreign plants.
• Acquired, as diseases; accidental.
• associated by chance and not an integral part
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• coming from another source and not inherent or innate

Words related to ADVENTITIOUS

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Words that contain ADVENTITIOUS

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How to use ADVENTITIOUS in a sentence

• Owing to certain adventitious causes, I have enjoyed an access to European society that few of our countrymen possess, and I hope the advantage has not been entirely thrown away.
• That land of promise presents in itself sufficient allurements to our young and enterprising citizens without any adventitious aid.
• Dear as his daughter might become to him, all he dared to ask of Heaven was that she might be restored to that truer self which lay beneath her false and adventitious being.
• Trade and travel began, at first only a trade in adventitious things, in metals and rare objects and luxuries and slaves.
• He had removed a bushy pair of whiskers which he sported in Glasgow, and had added to his adventitious characteristics a pair of green spectacles.
• Whenever, if ever, he and we can come together on principle so that our great cause may have assistance from his great ability, I hope to have interposed no adventitious obstacle.
• In explaining such meanings as seem accidental and adventitious, I shall endeavour to give an account of the means by which they were introduced.
• A profession is usually adventitious, made by chance views, or by family arrangements.
• His thoughts were of a character to shine by their own light, without any adventitious aid.
• But quite apart from such adventitious attractions, the novel is an admirable one.
• The system of ordination, like that of kinship, is characterized by reckoning from the ego and by adventitious associations.
• There is no attempt on the part of nature to form an adventitious cord on the left side.
• The course of events gave to the Henstead election an importance which seemed rather adventitious to people not Henstead-born.
• Our Lord has accepted life on its lowest economic terms in order that nothing in His mission shall flow from adventitious aids.
• If these rules are so liable to vary, through adventitious notions, we should find them clearest in children and in persons wholly illiterate.
• They are also natural, or adventitious, and again perfect or imperfect.
• The average man was but a sorry creature, and required adventitious aids for his development.
• But the rod and the hounds are merely adventitious attractions to Dulverton.
• Adventitious circumstances bring some men and women more prominently before the world than others, but even such fame as this is transient, evanescent, and of little importance.
• It is of a greenish colour, but this may be adventitious, although general and uniform throughout the specimen.
• But Grillparzer nevertheless resolved that his next play should dispense with all adventitious aids and should take as simple a form and style as he could give it.
• Mueller, declining adventitious aid, wandered among the ladies, making himself universally agreeable and trusting for a partner to his own unassisted efforts.
• Beauty is adventitious, occasional, incidental, in human products no less than in nature.
• The specific values of art are technical values, more permanent and definite than the adventitious analogies on which a stray observer usually bases his views.
• The professionally irregular class of women represents an extreme and unfortunate result of an adventitious and not-completely-functional relation to society.
• And to things of great dimensions, if we annex an adventitious idea of terror, they become without comparison greater.
• The love of men and women is probably more powerful and less in need of adventitious support than either patriotism or religion.
• The fundamental and essential conditions of life are the same in any age, however the adventitious circumstances may change.
• If they are impressed by the historical character of Gotama, they conclude that all legends with a supernatural tinge must be late and adventitious.
• Indeed, very probably he drew some deductions in his own intuitive way, without any adventitious aid.
• Whenever, if ever, he and we can come together on principle, so that our cause may have assistance from his great ability, I hope to have interposed no adventitious obstacle.

Similar words containing ADVENTITIOU without suffix s

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