incidental

Speech parts

1. incidental - Noun

2. incidental - Adjective

3. incidental - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

not of prime or central importance

occurring with or following as a consequence

(sometimes followed by `to') minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence

an item that is incidental

(frequently plural) an expense not budgeted or not specified

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

accidental contingent casual collateral fortuitous nonessential minor secondary chance incident peripheral accompanying trivial subsidiary resultant
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Antonyms

necessary basic intentional supreme cardinal grand
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Hypernyms

point expense item

Phrases with the word

incidental expenses incidental remark incidental activity incidental side-effect incidental sounds incidental soundtrack

Anagrams

anticlined

Examples

Justice is merely incidental to law and order. J. Edgar Hoover

Anecdotal data is not incidental to theory development at all, but an essential part of it. Henry Mintzberg

The race question is subsidiary to the class question in politics, and to think of imperialism in terms of race is disastrous. But to neglect the racial factor as merely incidental is an error only less grave than to make it fundamental. C. L. R. James

As for the subject matter in my painting...it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me. William Baziotes

In other searchings it might be the object of the quest that brought satisfaction, or it might be something incidental that one got on the way; but in religion, desire was fulfilment, it was the seeking itself that rewarded. Willa Cather

The artist's aim is not to instruct the viewer, but to give information, whether the viewer understands the information is incidental to the artist. Sol LeWitt

Close letter words and terms

incident scene incident ticket system incident-free trip incidental activity incidental cost incidental expense