coincidental
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4.8
- adjective
- /koʊˈɪnsɪdɛntl/
:
fortuito
- It's purely coincidental that we both showed up at the same café at the same time.
- merely coincidental
- purely coincidental
- likely coincidental
And I think, and she was out of town and I think this fear just came up instilled in her from maybe from a few coincidental events.
- And I think, and she was out of town and I think this fear just came up instilled in her from maybe from a few coincidental events.
- The timing of this book seems to be a little bit coincidental when I or not when I look at what's going on in the world at the moment.
- This is probably not coincidental that these cells were essentially designed to detect sunlight, which is overhead, of course.
- I don't think it's coincidental that both Thatcher and Reagan went on to die of the unfortunate disease of Alzheimer's.
- It's, I mean, also could be, could be coincidental.
- But I was going to say something like just very interesting, very coincidental, but I think I was.
- And I feel like sometimes if you put things into it, even if it's not severely sick, it's just like, listen, it's coincidental.
Examples
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In O'Brien's story itself, the parallels with Bierce's, if coincidental, are uncanny.
Fiction book (1998) -
But is it purely coincidental that one of the main sources of funding is a deep space exploration company?
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I just think it's a bit coincidental, we were just talking about him
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Second, after all, it is merely a series of coincidental events.
Fiction book (1991) -
I guess, I just convinced myself that this was all coincidental.
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Similarities in this dialogue to our current circumstances are not coincidental.
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And I don't think those things are coincidental.
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The timing of the CFPB's creation in this regard was not coincidental.
Academic text (2017) -
The association with past tuberculosis, although perhaps coincidental, is intriguing and deserves further study.
Academic text (2012) -
The correlation perceived between text and image is likely coincidental rather than causal.
Academic text (2012)
Synonyms
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3.0
Happening by chance and not planned
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4.4
Happening at the same time as something else
21
6.6
Happening at the same time as another thing
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7.3
Happening by chance in a lucky or helpful way
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7.4
Happening by chance and bringing good results
3
5.1
Happening only by chance and not planned
1
5.6
Happening at the same time
Happening at the same time as something else
Antonyms
Compounds
How Connected
Surface Forms
Morphology
coincidental = coincident (semi-transparent) = coincide + ent + al
The word is built regularly from coincident plus -al, though the added sense of happening by chance is slightly less predictable than the form alone.
Etymology
Coincidental comes from the Latin parts co- 'together' and incidere 'to fall', so it originally meant 'to fall together'. Think of two events landing at the same time by chance, the same idea in coincide and incident, which is why something coincidental happens by chance at the same time as something else.