What are some opposite words for incidental?
Antonyms for incidental
ˌɪn sɪˈdɛn tlin·ci·den·tal
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term incidental.
English Synonyms and Antonyms
incidental
Antonyms:
congenital, essential, immanent, inborn, inbred, indispensable, indwelling, infixed, ingrained, inherent, inhering, innate, inseparable, internal, intrinsic, inwrought, native, natural, subjectiveSynonyms:
accidental, casual, external, extrinsic, fortuitous, outward, subsidiary, superadded, superficial, superfluous, superimposed, supplemental, transient, unconnected
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
incidental
Antonyms:
systematic, regular, independent, disconnected, irrelative, essential, immanent, inherent, uniform, invariableSynonyms:
casual, occasional, appertinent, concomitant, concurrent, accidental, fortuitous
Matched Categories
Princeton's WordNet
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, basicSynonyms:
incidental expense, minor expenseincidentaladjective
an item that is incidental
Antonyms:
base, rudimentary, essential, basal, grassroots, underlying, fundamental, elementary, elemental, primary, radical, basic, antecedentSynonyms:
incidental expense, minor expenseincidental, 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, rudimentarySynonyms:
accompanying, ensuant, sequent, incident, consequent, resultant, attendant, nonessential, concomitantincidental, 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, essentialSynonyms:
accompanying, ensuant, sequent, incident, consequent, resultant, attendant, nonessential, concomitantattendant, 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, basicSynonyms:
accompanying, ensuant, consecutive, sequent, incident, consequent, attendant, resultant, nonessential, serial, successive, concomitant, sequential
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
incidentaladjective
Synonyms:
casual, accidental, oontingent, fortuitous, subordinate, collateral, accessory
How to use incidental in a sentence?
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.
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.
Very often Chiari is an incidental finding and if they don’t need immediate surgery we caution against it.
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.
Virtually all federal actions – from prosecuting crime to imposing taxes to managing property – have some incidental effects on state finances.
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#759 | natural | |
#945 | basic | |
#988 | base | |
#1243 | primary | |
#1264 | independent | |
#1299 | regular | |
#1573 | internal | |
#2131 | essential | |
#2290 | native | |
#3218 | elementary | |
#4428 | fundamental | |
#4721 | uniform | |
#5739 | underlying | |
#6963 | radical | |
#8421 | systematic | |
#9987 | subjective | |
#10683 | inherent | |
#13621 | incidental | |
#14313 | grassroots | |
#14490 | intrinsic | |
#17954 | congenital | |
#18555 | basal | |
#18563 | indispensable | |
#18670 | elemental | |
#18891 | disconnected | |
#25535 | innate | |
#26448 | inbred | |
#36939 | rudimentary | |
#40838 | inseparable | |
#44502 | antecedent | |
#52940 | ingrained | |
#65503 | inborn | |
#71087 | indwelling | |
#86054 | immanent | |
#96232 | invariable |
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