accident-prone
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5.1
- adjective
- /ˈæk.sɪ.dənt.proʊn/
- His accident-prone nature led to frequent trips to the hospital for minor injuries.
- accident-prone drivers
- accident-prone child
- very accident-prone
Examples
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I am very accident-prone, so I did not want to try my luck (or fingers!) on grating a bar of ivory soap.
Blog text (18) -
But you do seem to have gotten very accident-prone lately.
Fiction book (1992) -
But I was really accident prone as a child and I feel like he is as well.
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We're sort of accident prone.
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I seem to be accident-prone.
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Firstly, it's an accident-prone area.
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We do seem to be accident-prone, don't we?
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We are all accident-prone.
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Some people are accident-prone.
Blog text (8) -
I'm accident-prone.
Synonyms
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1.0
A lack of attention that causes mistakes or harm
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5.1
Tends to make many mistakes
Antonyms
How Accident-Prone
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word accident-prone combines the everyday word accident ('a mishap') and prone ('likely to'). Think of prone as once meaning 'bent forward', so you can imagine someone leaning and ready to fall, which is why accident-prone means 'likely to have accidents'.