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Synonyms for accident
ˈæk sɪ dəntac·ci·dent
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Wiktionary
English Synonyms and Antonyms
accident
An accident is that which happens without any one's direct intention; a chance that which happens without any known cause. If the direct cause of a railroad accident is known, we can not call it a chance. To the theist there is, in strictness, no chance, all things being by divine causation and control; but chance is spoken of where no special cause is manifest: "By chance there came down a certain priest that way," Luke x, 31. We can speak of a game of chance, but not of a game of accident. An incident is viewed as occurring in the regular course of things, but subordinate to the main purpose, or aside from the main design. Fortune is the result of inscrutable controlling forces. Fortune and chance are nearly equivalent, but chance can be used of human effort and endeavor as fortune can not be; we say "he has a chance of success," or "there is one chance in a thousand," where we could not substitute fortune; as personified, Fortune is regarded as having a fitful purpose, Chance as purposeless; we speak of fickle Fortune, blind Chance; "Fortune favors the brave." The slaughter of men is an incident of battle; unexpected defeat, the fortune of war. Since the unintended is often the undesirable, accident tends to signify some calamity or disaster, unless the contrary is expressed, as when we say a fortunate or happy accident. An adventure is that which may turn out ill, a misadventure that which does turn out ill. A slight disturbing accident is a mishap. Compare EVENT; HAZARD.
Synonyms:
adventure, calamity, casualty, chance, contingency, disaster, fortuity, hap, happening, hazard, incident, misadventure, misfortune, mishap, possibilityAntonyms:
appointment, calculation, certainty, decree, fate, foreordination, intention, law, necessity, ordainment, ordinance, plan, preparation, provision, purposePreposition:
The accident of birth; an accident to the machinery.
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
accident
Synonyms:
chance, fortuity, disaster, incident, adventure, casualty, hazard, contingency, calamity, misadventure, mishapAntonyms:
law, purpose, appointment, ordainment, provision, preparation
Princeton's WordNet
accidentnoun
an unfortunate mishap; especially one causing damage or injury
Synonyms:
chance event, fortuity, strokeaccident, stroke, fortuity, chance eventnoun
anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause
"winning the lottery was a happy accident"; "the pregnancy was a stroke of bad luck"; "it was due to an accident or fortuity"
Synonyms:
stroking, solidus, slash, apoplexy, shot, cam stroke, separatrix, virgule, diagonal, cerebrovascular accident, chance event, fortuity, throw, stroke
Matched Categories
Dictionary of English Synonymes
accidentnoun
Synonyms:
casualty, chance, fortuity, mischance, misadventure, calamity, mishap, hap, hazard, contingency, CONTRETEMPS, unforeseen or fortuitous eventaccidentnoun
Synonyms:
property, quality, modification, affection, mode
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
accidentnoun
Synonyms:
casualty, mishap, contretemps, mischance, contingency
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "accident":
accidents, incident, crash, coincidence, disaster, injury, accidental, wreck, incidents, misfortune, mishap, casualty, crashes, occurrence
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1885 | chance | |
#1967 | shot | |
#2310 | adventure | |
#2620 | injury | |
#3865 | accident | |
#4134 | disaster | |
#4175 | possibility | |
#4404 | throw | |
#4498 | crash | |
#4926 | incident | |
#5437 | happening | |
#5586 | stroke | |
#6730 | accidents | |
#7304 | hazard | |
#8698 | incidents | |
#9403 | occurrence | |
#10825 | crashes | |
#11733 | accidental | |
#13105 | casualty | |
#13997 | slash | |
#14137 | diagonal | |
#14434 | contingency | |
#15547 | wreck | |
#18317 | coincidence | |
#25403 | hap | |
#31190 | misfortune | |
#32300 | stroking | |
#34052 | calamity | |
#43262 | mishap | |
#81876 | misadventure | |
#115750 | solidus | |
#124899 | apoplexy | |
#138823 | casus | |
#179341 | separatrix | |
#294115 | befalling |
How to use accident in a sentence?
When I was there it was much worse than it is now, we really suffered, this was an accident but it has been a long time coming.
Don Corleone I'm a superstitious man, and if some unlucky accident should befall Michael - if he is to be shot in the head by a police officer, or be found hung dead in a jail cell... or if he should be struck by a bolt of lightning - then I'm going to blame some of the people in this room and then I do not forgive. But with said, I pledge - on the souls of my grandchildren - that I will not be the one to break the peace that we have made today.
We believe the video itself proves that it was an accident of misfortune that occurred while Deputy Bates was fulfilling his duties as a reserve deputy.
What I'm not seeing is enough means to initiate this device, whether by design, whether by accident. I'm not seeing that, if I'm going by design,( if) it was designed that way, then the individual's motivation was simply to spread fear, instill fear.
With an interim report due to be delivered within a month of the accident, authorities have expressed hopes a remote underwater vehicle provides evidence. FRENCH SOCCER CLUB DEMAND PAYMENT OVER $ 19M EMILIANO SALA TRANSFER AS DIVERS SEARCH FOR HIS BODY The formal search was called off within three days of the plane disappearing from radar last month. It took a campaign by Salas family to raise funds for a private search by American-born, shipwreck-hunting specialist David Mearns, who located the aircraft within hours on Sunday in conjunction with air crash investigators. David Mearns told BBC Radio Wales that finding the pilots body would be difficult. Ive been involved in operations when people were lost and the bodies were found days and weeks after, not far from where they were lost.
Translations for accident
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- حادثArabic
- инцидент, катастрофа, злополукаBulgarian
- accidentCatalan, Valencian
- nehodaCzech
- egenskab, ulykkestilfælde, tilfældighed, ulykke, uheld, tilfældeDanish
- Unfall, ZufallGerman
- ατύχημαGreek
- akcidentoEsperanto
- accidenteSpanish
- avarii, õnnetusEstonian
- istripu, ezbeharBasque
- vahinko, ilmiasu, tapaturma, sattuma, onnettomuus, ilmenemismuotoFinnish
- accidentFrench
- tubaist, tuiteamasScottish Gaelic
- תְאוּנָהHebrew
- दुर्घटनाHindi
- balesetHungarian
- դժբախտ պատահար, վթարArmenian
- kecelakaanIndonesian
- incidenteItalian
- 偶然, 事故, アクシデントJapanese
- ajunaarneqKalaallisut, Greenlandic
- 사고Korean
- aitua, hauataMāori
- kemalanganMalay
- uhell, ulykkeNorwegian
- toevallig, ongeval, ongeluk, toevalDutch
- ulukke, ulykke, uhellNorwegian Nynorsk
- ulykkestilfelle, uhell, ulykkeNorwegian
- wypadekPolish
- acidentePortuguese
- accidentRomanian
- авария, случайность, столкновение, катастрофа, ч. п., случай, ДТП, несчастный случайRussian
- nesreća, nezgodaSerbo-Croatian
- olyckaSwedish
- ajaliSwahili
- kazaTurkish
- випадокUkrainian
- sự cốVietnamese
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