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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 |
| 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 |
Example Sentences
- These climbing roots are adventitious; that is, they do not arise from the young root of the germinating seed.
- The poem obtained adventitious fame.
- Stilt roots are adventitious roots that grow out of the main trunk, a yard or so above the ground.
| 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 |
| Antonyms: | impossible, unattainable, ungettable, unlikely, unrealizable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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