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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | accidental |
| Synonyms: | casual, chance, circumstantial, fluky, fortuitous, incidental, unintentional, unplanned |
| Antonyms: | decided, deliberate, designed, planned |
| Main Entry: | circumstantial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | incidental |
| Synonyms: | amplified, coincidental, concomitant, concurrent, conjectural, contingent, detailed, environmental, fortuitous, inconclusive, indirect, inferential, presumptive, provisional, uncertain |
| Antonyms: | direct |
| Main Entry: | concomitant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | contributing, accompanying |
| Synonyms: | accessory, adjuvant, agreeing, ancillary, associated with, associative, attendant, attending, belonging, coefficient, coetaneous, coeval, coexistent, coincident, coincidental, collateral, complementary, concordant, concurrent, conjoined, conjoined with, connected, contemporaneous, contemporary, coordinate, corollary, coterminous, coupled with, fellow, in tempo, in time, incident, isochronal, isochronous, joint, satellite, synchronal, synchronous, synergetic, synergistic |
| Antonyms: | accidental, chance, unrelated |
| Main Entry: | congruous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | corresponding, suitable |
| Synonyms: | accordant, appropriate, apt, becoming, coincidental, compatible, concordant, congruent, consistent, consonant, correspondent, fit, fitting, harmonious, meet, proper, seemly, sympathetic |
| Notes: | congruent means 'agreeing or corresponding with' in a strict, technical sense while congruous indicates that the correspondence is looser, more general |
| Antonyms: | disagreeing, incongruous, unfitting, unharmonious, unsuitable |
| Main Entry: | fluky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | chance |
| Synonyms: | accidental, casual, chancy, coincidental, contingent, fortuitous, incalculable, incidental, lucky, odd, uncertain, variable |
| Antonyms: | certain, designed, planned, sure |
| 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: | similar |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very much alike |
| Synonyms: | agnate, akin, allied, analogous, coincident, coincidental, coinciding, collateral, companion, comparable, complementary, congruent, congruous, consonant, consubstantial, correlative, corresponding, homogeneous, identical, in agreement, kin, kindred, like, matching, much the same, parallel, reciprocal, related, resembling, same, twin, uniform |
| Antonyms: | alien, different, dissimilar, opposite, unalike, unlike |
| Main Entry: | overlapping |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | coinciding |
| Synonyms: | coincidental, extending, overlying, projecting, protruding, super-imposed |
| Main Entry: | supervenient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | incidental |
| Synonyms: | accidental, accompanying, adscititious, 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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