1. circumstantial - Noun
2. circumstantial - Adjective
3. circumstantial - Adjective Satellite
Consisting in, or pertaining to, circumstances or particular incidents.
Incidental; relating to, but not essential.
Abounding with circumstances; detailing or exhibiting all the circumstances; minute; particular.
Something incidental to the main subject, but of less importance; opposed to an essential; -- generally in the plural; as, the circumstantials of religion.
Source: Webster's dictionarySome circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. Henry David Thoreau
Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different. Arthur Conan Doyle
Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example. Arthur Conan Doyle
How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians. Horace Walpole
The Greatest Generation gets too much credit. Those World War II guys, if they had all the shit we have today, they'd be assholes too. It's just circumstantial. It's what you're called on to do that makes you great. We haven't been called on to do anything but buy shit and get fat. Louis C.K.
Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom. Cai Guo-Qiang