accidental
Meaning of accidental
noun
- 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.
- Part of a text that has a mainly structural purpose, such as spelling, punctuation or capitalization.
- Not essential; incidental, secondary.
- Nonessential to something's inherent nature (especially in Aristotelian thought).
- Adjusted by one or two semitones, in temporary departure from the key signature.
- Occurring sometimes, by chance; occasional.
- Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; by accident, unintentional.
- Being a double point with two distinct tangent planes in 4-dimensional projective space.
Information about accidental
- The plural form of accidental is: accidentals.
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Catalan
GalicianHyphenation of accidental
ac-ci-den-tal
- It consists of 4 syllables and 10 chars.
- accidental is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
accidental synonyms
Meaning adventitious:
Meaning casual:
Meaning inadvertent:
Meaning :
contingent, fortuitous, incidental, occasional, serendipitous, circumstantial
Translation of accidental
- Spanish: accidental, casual, fortuito, fortuita
- French: accidentel
- Italian: accidentale, fortuito
- Portuguese: acidental
- German: zufällig
Words that rhyme with accidental
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