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Antonyms for incidental
ˌɪn sɪˈdɛn tlin·ci·den·tal

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  1. incidental

    Antonyms:
    systematic, regular, independent, disconnected, irrelative, essential, immanent, inherent, uniform, invariable

    Synonyms:
    casual, occasional, appertinent, concomitant, concurrent, accidental, fortuitous

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  1. incidental expense, incidental, minor expensenoun

    (frequently plural) an expense not budgeted or not specified

    "he requested reimbursement of $7 for incidental expenses"

    Antonyms:
    elemental, radical, primary, antecedent, fundamental, basal, essential, base, elementary, underlying, grassroots, rudimentary, basic

    Synonyms:
    incidental expense, minor expense

  2. incidentaladjective

    an item that is incidental

    Antonyms:
    base, rudimentary, essential, basal, grassroots, underlying, fundamental, elementary, elemental, primary, radical, basic, antecedent

    Synonyms:
    incidental expense, minor expense

  3. incidental, incidentadjective

    (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"

    Antonyms:
    basal, elemental, antecedent, base, primary, essential, radical, elementary, grassroots, fundamental, underlying, basic, rudimentary

    Synonyms:
    accompanying, ensuant, sequent, incident, consequent, resultant, attendant, nonessential, concomitant

  4. incidental, nonessentialadjective

    not of prime or central importance

    "nonessential to the integral meanings of poetry"- Pubs.MLA

    Antonyms:
    rudimentary, radical, elementary, elemental, grassroots, fundamental, antecedent, primary, underlying, basal, basic, base, essential

    Synonyms:
    accompanying, ensuant, sequent, incident, consequent, resultant, attendant, nonessential, concomitant

  5. attendant, consequent, accompanying, concomitant, incidental, ensuant, resultant, sequentadjective

    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"

    Antonyms:
    elemental, essential, base, antecedent, fundamental, radical, rudimentary, underlying, elementary, basal, primary, grassroots, basic

    Synonyms:
    accompanying, ensuant, consecutive, sequent, incident, consequent, attendant, resultant, nonessential, serial, successive, concomitant, sequential

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  1. incidentaladjective

    Synonyms:
    casual, accidental, oontingent, fortuitous, subordinate, collateral, accessory

How to use incidental in a sentence?

  1. Peace Pilgrim:

    Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.

  2. Susan Rice:

    I know nothing about this, i was surprised to see reports from Chairman Nunes on that count today … So today, I really don’t know to what Chairman Nunes on that count was referring. But Chairman Nunes on that count said that whatever Chairman Nunes on that count was referring to was a legal, lawful surveillance and that it was potentially incidental collection on American citizens.

  3. Sorel Vorster:

    Very often Chiari is an incidental finding and if they don’t need immediate surgery we caution against it.

  4. James Comey:

    Because it was incidental and I was always making sure that the work got forwarded to the government account to either my own account or [ FBI chief of staff James Rybicki ], so I wasn't worried from a record-keeping perspective and it was, because there will always be a copy of it in the FBI system and I wasn't doing classified work there, so I wasn't concerned about that.

  5. Elizabeth Prelogar:

    Virtually all federal actions – from prosecuting crime to imposing taxes to managing property – have some incidental effects on state finances.

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