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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | from outside |
| Synonyms: | accidental, casual, extrinsic, foreign, fortuitous, nonessential |
| Main Entry: | casual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | chance, random |
| Synonyms: | accidental, adventitious, by chance, contingent, erratic, extemporaneous, extempore, fluky, fortuitous, impromptu, improvised, impulsive, incidental, infrequent, irregular, occasional, odd, offhand, serendipitous, spontaneous, uncertain, unexpected, unforeseen, unintentional, unplanned, unpremeditated |
| Notes: | casual means suited for everyday use, informal or occurring by chance - while causal means involving or constituting a cause |
| Antonyms: | deliberate, painstaking, planned, premeditated |
| Main Entry: | chance |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | accidental, unforeseeable |
| Synonyms: | adventitious, at random, casual, contingent, fluky, fortuitous, fortunate, happy, inadvertent, incidental, lucky, odd, offhand, unforeseen, unintentional, unlooked for, unplanned |
| Antonyms: | designed, foreseeable, planned, understood |
| Main Entry: | extraneous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unneeded; irrevelant |
| Synonyms: | accidental, additional, adventitious, beside the point, extra, foreign, immaterial, impertinent, inadmissible, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, incidental, inessential, needless, nonessential, off the subject, peripheral, pointless, redundant, superfluous, supplementary, unconnected, unessential, unnecessary, unrelated |
| Antonyms: | appropriate, basic, essential, integral, necessary, needed, pertinent, relevant |
| Main Entry: | extraneous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | foreign |
| Synonyms: | adventitious, alien, exotic, external, extrinsic, out of place, strange |
| Antonyms: | national, native |
| Main Entry: | foreign |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irrelevant |
| Synonyms: | accidental, adventitious, extraneous, extrinsic, heterogeneous, immaterial, impertinent, inapposite, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, irrelative, repugnant, unassimilable, uncharacteristic, unrelated |
| Antonyms: | characteristic, familiar, known, regular, relevant |
| Main Entry: | incidental |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | related; minor |
| Synonyms: | accidental, accompanying, adventitious, ancillary, attendant, by-the-way, casual, chance, circumstantial, coincidental, concomitant, concurrent, contingent, contributing, contributory, fluke, fortuitous, irregular, nonessential, occasional, odd, random, secondary, subordinate, subsidiary |
| Antonyms: | basic, essential, fundamental, important, vital |
| Main Entry: | lucky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fortunate, opportune |
| Synonyms: | advantageous, adventitious, all systems go, auspicious, beneficial, benign, blessed, charmed, coming up roses, everything going, favored, felicitous, fortuitous, getting a break, golden, happy, hit it big, holding aces, hopeful, hot*, in the groove, into something, on a roll, on a streak, promising, propitious, prosperous, providential, serendipitous, striking it rich, successful, timely, well |
| Antonyms: | bad, inopportune, unfortunate, unlucky, unpropitious, unsuccessful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | possible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | likely, attainable |
| Synonyms: | accessible, achievable, adventitious, advisable, available, breeze*, can do, cinch, conceivable, credible, dependent, desirable, doable, dormant, duck soup, easy as pie, expedient, feasible, fortuitous, hopeful, hypothetical, imaginable, indeterminate, latent, no sweat, obtainable, piece of cake, potential, practicable, probable, promising, pushover, realizable, setup, simple as ABC, snap, thinkable, uncertain, viable, welcome, within reach, workable |
| Notes: | feasible means capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are; possible means capable of happening or existing; probable means likely but not certain to be or become true or real possible means it could happen or be done; probable means it is likely to happen |
| Antonyms: | impossible, unattainable, ungettable, unlikely, unrealizable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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