Accident

['æksɪdənt] or ['æksədənt]

Definition

(noun.) 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'.

(noun.) an unfortunate mishap; especially one causing damage or injury.

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Definition

(n.) Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident.

(n.) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case.

(n.) A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.

(n.) A property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute.

(n.) A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness.

(n.) Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident.

(n.) Unusual appearance or effect.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Casualty, chance, fortuity, mischance, misadventure, calamity, mishap, hap, hazard, contingency, CONTRETEMPS, unforeseen or fortuitous event.[2]. Property, quality, modification, affection, mode.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Chance, fortuity, disaster, incident, adventure, casualty, hazard, contingency,calamity, misadventure, mishap

ANT:Law, purpose, appointment, ordainment, provision, preparation

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Definition

n. that which happens: an unforeseen or unexpected event: chance: an unessential quality or property.—adj. Accident′al happening by chance: not essential.—n. anything not essential.—ns. Accident′alism Accidental′ity.—adv. Accident′ally.—The chapter of accidents the unforeseen course of events.

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Unserious Contents or Definition

To dream of an accident is a warning to avoid any mode of travel for a short period, as you are threatened with loss of life. For an accident to befall stock, denotes that you will struggle with all your might to gain some object and then see some friend lose property of the same value in aiding your cause.

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Unserious Contents or Definition

n. An inevitable occurrence due to the action of immutable natural laws.

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Unserious Contents or Definition

A condition of affairs in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body better.

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Examples

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