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Synonyms for accident
ˈæk sɪ dəntac·ci·dent
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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?
Insurance fraud costs all New Yorkers, breaking up staged automobile accident rings means safer streets and safer communities.
The mosque was not attacked but it was an accident. We have not seen mosques being attacked. If it was deliberate, all could be killed easily. There was no gunfire.
Once they accept that men and women are equal... in terms of blood money when there is a car accident, that means they have accepted the principle, so that can set a precedent, blood money.
He describes the event as if it were an auto accident in which a passenger died, teddy left Mary Jo Kopechne trapped in the car. He was not a great man !
We want to peacefully resolve our overlapping exclusive economic zone claims to avoid further friction which may result in an accident, there are ongoing backroom talks to come to an agreement but I am not privy to these talks.
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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