| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happening unexpectedly |
| Synonyms: | adventitious, casual, chance, coincidental, contingent, fluky, fortuitous, inadvertent, incidental, random, uncalculated, unexpected, unforeseen, unintended, unintentional, unplanned |
| Notes: | accidental stresses chance; fortuitous so strongly suggests chance that it often connotes absence of cause |
| Antonyms: | decided, designed, essential, intended, intentional, planned, premeditated |
| Main Entry: | unconscious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ignorant; automatic |
| Synonyms: | accidental, gut, inadvertent, inattentive, inherent, innate, instinctive, involuntary, latent, lost, reflex, repressed, subconscious, subliminal, suppressed, unaware, uncalculated, undeliberate, unheeding, unintended, unintentional, unmindful, unpremeditated, unrealized, unwitting |
| Antonyms: | aware, conscious, decided, intended, intentional, knowing |
| Main Entry: | unforeseen |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | surprising |
| Synonyms: | abrupt, accidental, from left field, not bargained for, out of the blue, startling, sudden, surprise, unanticipated, uncalculated, unexpected, unlooked-for |
| Antonyms: | expected, foreseen, predictable, predicted |