incidental
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
incidental
adj 1: (sometimes followed by `to') minor or casual or
subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a
chance concomitant or consequence; "incidental expenses";
"the road will bring other incidental advantages"; "extra
duties incidental to the job"; "labor problems incidental
to a rapid expansion"; "confusion incidental to a quick
change" [syn: {incidental}, {incident}] [ant: {basic}]
2: not of prime or central importance; "nonessential to the
integral meanings of poetry"- Pubs.MLA [syn: {incidental},
{nonessential}]
3: following or accompanying as a consequence; "an excessive
growth of bureaucracy, with attendant problems"; "snags
incidental to the changeover in management"; "attendant
circumstances"; "the period of tension and consequent need
for military preparedness"; "the ensuant response to his
appeal"; "the resultant savings were considerable" [syn:
{attendant}, {consequent}, {accompanying}, {concomitant},
{incidental}, {ensuant}, {resultant}, {sequent}]
n 1: (frequently plural) an expense not budgeted or not
specified; "he requested reimbursement of $7 for incidental
expenses" [syn: {incidental expense}, {incidental}, {minor
expense}]
2: an item that is incidental
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Incidental \In`ci*den"tal\, a.
Happening, as an occasional event, without regularity; coming
without design; casual; accidental; hence, not of prime
concern; subordinate; collateral; as, an incidental
conversation; an incidental occurrence; incidental expenses.
[1913 Webster]
By some, religious duties . . . appear to be regarded .
. . as an incidental business. --Rogers.
Syn: Accidental; casual; fortuitous; contingent; chance;
collateral. See {Accidental}. -- {In`ci*den"tal*ly},
adv. -- {In`ci*den"tal*ness}, n.
[1913 Webster]
I treat either or incidentally of colors. --Boyle.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
166 Moby Thesaurus words for "incidental":
accessory, acciaccatura, accident, accidental, accompanying,
addendum, addition, additional, adjunct, ado, adrift, adscititious,
adventitious, afloat, afoot, aleatory, ancillary, appendage,
appoggiatura, appurtenance, appurtenant, arabesque, article,
ascititious, aspect, auxiliary, beside the mark, beside the point,
beside the question, by-the-way, cadence, cadenza, case, casual,
causeless, chance, chancy, circumstantial, collateral, coloratura,
conditional, contingency, contingent, count, current, datum,
destinal, detail, dicey, division, doing, element, embellishment,
eventuating, extra, extraneous, extrinsic, facet, fact, factor,
fatal, fatidic, fioritura, flight, flourish, fluky, fortuitous,
going on, grace, grace note, haphazard, happening, happenstance,
iffy, immaterial, impertinent, in hand, in the wind, inadmissible,
inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, incidental note,
inconsequent, inconsequential, indeterminate, inessential,
insignificant, instance, irrelative, irrelevant, item, lesser,
long mordent, matter, mere chance, minor, minor detail, minutia,
minutiae, mordent, negligible, nihil ad rem, nonessential,
not at issue, not-self, occasional, occurring, odd, off,
off the subject, on, on foot, ongoing, ornament, other,
out-of-the-way, paltry, parenthetical, part-time, particular,
passage, passing, petty, point, pralltriller, prevailing,
prevalent, provisional, random, regard, respect, resultant, risky,
roulade, run, secondary, serendipitous, side, single mordent,
spare, subordinate, subsidiary, superadded, superaddition,
superfluous, supervenient, supplement, supplemental, supplementary,
taking place, thing, trifling, trivial, turn, uncaused, under way,
undetermined, unessential, unexpected, unforeseeable, unforeseen,
unimportant, unlooked-for, unplanned, unpredictable
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