Thesaurus:accidental

Thesaurus

accidental

English

Adjective

Sense: happening by chance or unexpectedly

Synonyms

• accidental
• accidentary (obsolete)
• adventitious
• by accident
• by the by
• casual
• causeless
• chanceable (obsolete)
• fortuitous
• incidental
• lippening (UK dialect)
• occasional
• random
• serendipitous
• unforeseen
• unintended
• unintentional    [⇒ thesaurus]
• unplanned

Antonyms

• inevitable    [⇒ thesaurus]
• impossible
• intentional    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

• lucky    [⇒ thesaurus]
• risky
• unlucky    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• Thesaurus:accident
• Thesaurus:accidentally

Further reading

• “156. chance” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “accidental” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.