Accidental
[æksɪ'dent(ə)l] or [,æksɪ'dɛntl]
Definition
(noun.) a musical notation that makes a note sharp or flat or natural although that is not part of the key signature.
(adj.) happening by chance or unexpectedly or unintentionally ; 'with an inadvertent gesture she swept the vase off the table'; 'accidental poisoning'; 'an accidental shooting' .
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Definition
(a.) Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; casual; fortuitous; as, an accidental visit.
(a.) Nonessential; not necessary belonging; incidental; as, are accidental to a play.
(n.) A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally.
(n.) Those fortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow.
(n.) A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Casual, fortuitous, contingent, that happens by chance, not designed, not planned.[2]. Incidental, adventitious, non-essential.
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Examples
- It is impossible that it can be accidental! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Though their beneficial effects, however, have been in this respect accidental, they have not upon that account been less real. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- If you think it is a case of accidental death, you will find a verdict accordingly. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Mr. Bingley had not been of age two years, when he was tempted by an accidental recommendation to look at Netherfield House. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- They had lounged away in a poverty-stricken, purposeless, accidental manner, quite natural and unimpeachable. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- It was the accidental misfortune of Germany that her Emperors never remained German. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The common term under which, through the accidental use of language, two entirely different ideas were included was another source of confusion. Plato. The Republic.
- But the objective man, in Nietzsche's opinion, distrusts his own personality and regards it as some thing to be set aside as accidental, and a detriment to calm judgment. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The suddenness of the effect can be accounted for only by a cause which can operate suddenly, the accidental variations of the seasons. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- For Fanny, somewhat more was related than the accidental agreeableness of the parties he had been in. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- There was no answer, and they might have gone away, believing the house to be empty, if there had not been some accidental fall, as of a book, within. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- But I suppose it was an accidental thing. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It is probable that they are occasionally transported by what may be called accidental means. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- I have lately become better acquainted with him through some accidental circumstances that have made me a visitor of his in private life. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- This, however, is not the effect of any contract, but of the accidental concurrence of their passions in the same object at that particular time. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He and his hopes were accidentals, violations to her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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