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

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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. Mark Olfson:

   It has it has contributed to a larger share of the deaths being accidental. So, in a way, it's sort of crowding out the intentional deaths.

2. Rick Kuhnla:

   It’s a small step, but it is a victory for us, we’re hoping this puts pressure on the police department to make an arrest, as their own court system rejected their claim that her death was accidental.

3. 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

4. Communications Minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary:

   Two Cameroonian soldiers were killed (during the operation) by an accidental mine explosion. Five other soldiers were wounded.

5. Sylvia Palmer:

   Peter Liang says that it was an accidental death. Peter Liang, my son was no accident, you murdered my son. I need justice for my son. I need a conviction of Peter Liang.

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