incidental English

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incidental Adjective

— When something is incidental, it happened by chance or has occurred by accident.

incidental

— adjective (sometimes followed by 'to') minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence incidental expenses the road will bring other incidental advantages extra duties incidental to the job labor problems incidental to a rapid expansion confusion incidental to a quick change

— adjective (= nonessential) not of prime or central importance nonessential to the integral meanings of poetry — Pubs.MLA

— noun an item that is incidental

— noun (= incidental expense) (frequently plural) an expense not budgeted or not specified he requested reimbursement of $7 for incidental expenses

— adjective (= attendant, consequent, accompanying, ensuant, resultant) following or accompanying as a consequence an excessive growth of bureaucracy, with attendant problems snags incidental to the changeover in management attendant circumstances the period of tension and consequent need for military preparedness the ensuant response to his appeal the resultant savings were considerable

Synonyms incidental synonyms

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accidental

casual

secondary

occasional

accessory

subordinate

fortuitous

circumstantial

chance

random

incident

haphazard

contingent

adventitious

side

sequent

resultant

nonessential

minor expense

minor

junior

incidental expense

episodic

ensuant

consequent

concomitant

coincidental

auxiliary

attendant

arbitrary

ancillary

accompanying

symptomatic

support

sudden outbreak

subsidiary

stray

sporadic

scratch

passing

parenthetical

parenthetic

off

irregular

infrequent

included

incidence

immaterial

helping

helpful

Topics incidental topics

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Grammar Semantic constituents related to verbs Agent-oriented modalities

Necessary

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  unnecessary extraneous incidental inessential needless nonessential uncalled-for unessential unnecessary unneeded

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Simple sentences

His criticism only referred to incidental matters.

Movie subtitles

Naturally, there will be a few incidental expenses.

All right, this man is married to you, but that's purely incidental.

No, it's the incidental music for this scene.

This is all memorabilia. but it's incidental, not integral, if you know what I mean.

Our stuff was incidental.

They were hit by incidental fire.

This is incidental.

The risk is incidental compared to the possibility. to possess the great truth of the unknown.

Their attack on us was incidental, Captain.

That is incidental.

But they're all somewhat incidental to the actual using of the brain.

There may have been some incidental penetration but from her angle, she was in no position to make the call.

Look, I didn't put you through all this just to upset you, though that was certainly an incidental pleasure.

The fact that he'd slept with her mother came as a surprise, but I think was incidental to the nightmare of recrimination and violence that became their two-day marriage.

Oh, this is completely incidental, I can insure you.

Watson, I'm convinced that these murders are only incidental to some larger and more diabolical scheme.

It's purely incidental.

Is that purely incidental too?

This is all memorabilia but it's incidental, not integral, if you know what I mean.

You know, Johnny all they want is a kind of incidental control over just a part of our lives.

Castinager suggests that Tulse Luper's film Vertical Features was far more important than an incidental examination of structure, and suggests that Tulse Luper foresaw to some extent the unsuitability of the Session Three plans for the future.

There's an art to being incidental.

Naturally there will be a few incidental expenses.

But to Kepler, they were only incidental to his quest for a cosmic system based on the perfect solids.

Getting into another dimension provides, as an incidental benefit a kind of x-ray vision.

As an incidental consequence of their trajectories they will be carried inexorably into the realm of the stars where they will wander forever.

It seemed incidental.

I think was incidental to the nightmare of recrimination and violence that became their two-day marriage.

The fact that they're soundproofing it as well is incidental.

Next to which, dropping your wallet in that hamburger joint, paying Lewis French to keep his mouth shut, is incidental.

News and current affairs

Is this another incidental by-product of the campaign against Khodorkovsky, or is it part of the core Kremlin agenda?

This would account for the fact that voices also emerge during states of extreme, but incidental, emotionality brought on by inspired thought, mania, depression, or ingestion of certain drugs.

Some westerners, while lamenting Ahmedinejad's insensitivity, have struggled to minimize the significance of his Holocaust denial as the fulminations of a misguided fanatic (as if misguided fanaticism were an incidental quality in a nation's president).

It acts as a subsidy on the production of tradable goods (which is desirable), along with a tax on their domestic consumption (which is incidental and undesirable).

But ethics is not the icing on the cake; it is not merely an incidental addition to the global market economy.