adventitious

Speech parts

1. adventitious - Adjective

2. adventitious - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign.

Out of the proper or usual place; as, adventitious buds or roots.

Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied to foreign plants.

Acquired, as diseases; accidental.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

foreign auxiliary supplementary secondary chance extra random occasional subordinate unexpected accidental contingent subsidiary casual accessory
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Antonyms

aboriginal natural basic inside internal slow
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Related terms

adventive adventitial adventition

Examples

It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free. Thomas Clarkson

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem. Ralph Waldo Emerson

...the snarling, whining, pampered, analphabetic humanoids of Hollywood emerge as garbage irrelevantly gilded with adventitious photogeneity. Anthony Burgess

poetry is something to which words are the accidental, not by any means the essential form Source: Internet

they had to decide whether his misconduct was adventitious or the result of a flaw in his character Source: Internet

Nymphaeaceae (water lilies) have reticulate veins, a single cotyledon, adventitious roots and a monocot like vascular bundle. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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