incidental
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6.0
- adjective
- /ˌɪn.sɪˈdɛn.təl/
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incidental
- The loneliness is just incidental.
- incidental finding
- incidental take
- incidental take authorization
My my aunt was a famous actress, but that's kind of incidental.
- My my aunt was a famous actress, but that's kind of incidental.
- We don't need large amounts, the amount we can get from food sources and from incidental sun exposure.
- So how do you know when leaking is something that's just like incidental versus something that is a problem?
- Those incidental things, the the child's brain is picking it all up and learning it.
- And my brother, they go and get it checked out because they're worried about Vertigo and they have an incidental finding where the guy has an intact aneurysm.
- But I think most of us can cope with the incidental toxic people that we run into grocery stores and bus stops, airplanes, restaurants, that kind of thing.
- Well, one thing I did just in, in a, in a kind of incidental way, I, I had never used the first person in fiction before.
- Were they was the was the point to decapitate them or was it incidental post mortem?
- No earthbound thing, too small, too crude, too incidental not to exalt, not to refuse to be demeaned by.
Examples
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Motives are incidental.
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This is all memorabilia, but it's incidental, not integral, if you know what I mean.
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But again, this is incidental and not important.
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The condition can be an incidental finding in otherwise healthy individuals, particularly young adults.
Academic text (2012) -
Considerations like these have more than an incidental influence on his treatment of the October Days.
Academic text (1991) -
International sports events have made an incidental contribution to this growing democratic climate.
Academic text (1990) -
The place of Christmas is thus not merely incidental to the celebration; it is crucial.
Academic text (1990) -
Many of these descriptions, though, were of contact that was incidental and casual.
Academic text (2011) -
Even if that person occasionally dispenses advice, it's only incidental to the business.
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The financial benefits of the project were incidental to its main goal of improving community engagement.
Synonyms
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6.7
Extra things that exist alongside the main thing
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3.4
Happening at the same time as something else or as a result of it
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4.9
Not necessary and happening as a small extra part
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4.4
Not needed for something to work or be successful
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6.2
Happening as a result of a particular event or situation
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Etymology
Incidental comes from the Latin parts in- 'into' and cadere 'to fall', so it originally meant something that 'falls into' a situation. So an incidental thing is a minor or secondary result that 'falls' alongside the main event, not the main thing.