Antonyms for accidental
ˌæk sɪˈdɛn tlac·ci·den·tal

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1. accidentaladjective

   Synonyms:
   fortuitous, adventitious, incidental, contingent, casual, occasional

2. accidentaladjective

   Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; casual; fortuitous

   an accidental visit

   Synonyms:
   incidental, casual, fortuitous, adventitious, occasional, contingent

3. accidentaladjective

   Nonessential; not necessary belonging; incidental

   are accidental to a play

   Synonyms:
   contingent, adventitious, fortuitous, incidental, casual, occasional

4. accidentaladjective

   Foreign to the key signature or a proper harmony.

   Synonyms:
   incidental, occasional, adventitious, contingent, fortuitous, casual

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1. accidental

   Antonyms:
   congenital, essential, immanent, inborn, inbred, indispensable, indwelling, infixed, ingrained, inherent, inhering, innate, inseparable, internal, intrinsic, inwrought, native, natural, subjective

   Synonyms:
   casual, external, extrinsic, fortuitous, incidental, outward, subsidiary, superadded, superficial, superfluous, superimposed, supplemental, transient, unconnected

Princeton's WordNetRate this antonym:0.0 / 0 votes

1. accidentaladjective

   a musical notation that makes a note sharp or flat or natural although that is not part of the key signature

   Antonyms:
   intended

2. accidental, inadvertentadjective

   happening by chance or unexpectedly or unintentionally

   "with an inadvertent gesture she swept the vase off the table"; "accidental poisoning"; "an accidental shooting"

   Antonyms:
   intended

   Synonyms:
   inadvertent

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1. accidentaladjective

   Synonyms:
   casual, fortuitous, incidental, nonessential, adventitious

How to use accidental in a sentence?

1. Irene Chavez:

   Any exposure, if it occurred, would have been completely innocent, and quite accidental, as the individual had no COVID symptoms and only sought to lift the spirits of those around them during what is a very stressful time.

2. Jonathan McDowell:

   I would say if we're carrying on doing what we're doing, we should expect to see in the next few years at least one major accidental satellite collision.

3. Doug Madory:

   I don't think there's anything that would make us think that this is accidental.

4. The Twitter CEO:

   Despite the success we are seeing with our use of algorithms to combat abuse, manipulation, and bad faith actors, we recognize that even a model created without deliberate bias may nevertheless result in biased outcomes, bias can happen inadvertently due to many factors, such as the quality of the data used to train our models. In addition to ensuring that we are not deliberately biasing the algorithms, it is our responsibility to understand, measure, and reduce these accidental biases. This is an extremely complex challenge in our industry, and algorithmic fairness and fair machine learning are active and substantial research topics in the machine learning community.

5. Leo Rosten:

   Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers

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