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accidental

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1. accidental - Noun

2. accidental - Adjective

3. accidental - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; casual; fortuitous; as, an accidental visit.

Nonessential; not necessary belonging; incidental; as, are accidental to a play.

A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally.

Those fortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow.

A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life. Arthur Miller

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return. Bertrand Russell

I've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental. Pelé

An accidental meeting is more pleasant than a planned one. Chinese Proverb

Accidental farts must be hidden by coughing. Finnish Proverb

Where there is accidental death, there is the devil's own henchman at work. Belgian Proverb

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