accidental
accidental is a 10-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; casual; fortuitous; as, an accidental visit. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- adjective. Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; casual; fortuitous; as, an accidental visit.
- adjective. Nonessential; not necessary belonging; incidental; as, are accidental to a play.
- noun. A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally.
- noun. 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.
- noun. A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note.
- noun. a musical notation that makes a note sharp or flat or natural although that is not part of the key signature
- adjective. happening by chance or unexpectedly or unintentionally
"with an inadvertent gesture she swept the vase off the table"
"accidental poisoning"
Synonyms
Common word forms
accidentals, accidentally, accidentality, accidentalness
Words from these letters
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