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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

happening without active intention, or just by chance;

e.g. Our meeting was accidental, a wrong-place-wrong-time kind of thing, but that's how our journey started.

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Similar Words

Acquired

Adscititious

Adventitious

Alien

Casual

Chance

Collateral

Contingent

External

Extraneous

Extrinsic

Fluky

Foreign

Fortuitous

Inadvertent

Incidental

Nondeliberate

Nonpurposive

Scattershot

Serendipitous

Shotgun

Supervenient

Unforeseeable

Unintended

Unintentional

Unplanned

Unpremeditated

Unprompted

Unwitting

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Opposite Words

Basic

Built-in

Calculated

Congenital

Conscious

Constitutional

Constitutive

Deep-seated

Deliberate

Essential

Essentially

Fixed

Foreseeable

Freewill

Hardwired

Immanent

Inborn

Inbred

Indigenous

Inevitable

Ingrain

Ingrained

Inherent

Innate

Inside

Integral

Intended

Intentional

Interior

Internal

Intrinsic

Native

Natural

Necessary

Predictable

Premeditated

Premeditative

Prepense

Purposeful

Purposive

Self-inflicted

Set

Unforced

Voluntary

Volunteer

Willed

Willful

Witting

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Related Words

Accompanying

Aimless

Arbitrary

Attendant

Attending

Catch-as-catch-can

Coincident

Coincidental

Concomitant

Concurrent

Desultory

Erratic

Exterior

Fluky

Forced

Fortuitous

Fortunate

Freak

Haphazard

Heaven-sent

Helter-skelter

Hit-or-miss

Immaterial

Inapplicable

Insignificant

Involuntary

Irrelevant

Lucky

Nonessential

Odd

Outside

Providential

Random

Slapdash

Stray

Unconscious

Unessential

Unexpected

Unforeseeable

Unforeseen

Unintended

Unintentional

Unnecessary

Unprompted

Unwilling

Will-less

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