What does INCIDENTAL mean?

Definitions for INCIDENTAL
ˌɪn sɪˈdɛn tlin·ci·den·tal

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. incidental expense, incidental, minor expensenoun

    (frequently plural) an expense not budgeted or not specified

    "he requested reimbursement of $7 for incidental expenses"

  2. incidentaladjective

    an item that is incidental

  3. incidental, incidentadjective

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

    "incidental expenses"; "the road will bring other incidental advantages"; "extra duties incidental to the job"; "labor problems incidental to a rapid expansion"; "confusion incidental to a quick change"

  4. incidental, nonessentialadjective

    not of prime or central importance

    "nonessential to the integral meanings of poetry"- Pubs.MLA

  5. attendant, consequent, accompanying, concomitant, incidental, ensuant, resultant, sequentadjective

    following or accompanying as a consequence

    "an excessive growth of bureaucracy, with attendant problems"; "snags incidental to the changeover in management"; "attendant circumstances"; "the period of tension and consequent need for military preparedness"; "the ensuant response to his appeal"; "the resultant savings were considerable"

Wiktionary

  1. incidentalnoun

    Incidental expense.

    She's costing us a lot in incidentals.

  2. incidentaladjective

    Loosely associated; existing as a byproduct, tangent, or accident.

    That character, though colorful, is incidental to the overall plot.

  3. incidentaladjective

    Entering or approaching, prior to reflection (more frequently incident).

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Incidentaladjective

    Incident; casual; happening by chance; not intended; not deliberate.

    The satisfaction you received from those incidental discourses which we have wandered into. John Milton.

    By some religious duties scarce appear to be regarded at all, and by others only as an incidental business, to be done when they have nothing else to do. John Rogers, Sermons.

ChatGPT

  1. incidental

    Incidental refers to something which is secondary, nonessential, or occurring as a minor consequence or result of something else. It could also imply something occurring by chance or occasionally, without being a main purpose, reason, or concern.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of INCIDENTAL in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of INCIDENTAL in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of INCIDENTAL in a Sentence

  1. Fox News:

    There are incidental accidents on film sets from time to time, but nothing like this, this is a one in a trillion episode. It's a one in a trillion event.

  2. Adam Schiff:

    If we are listening to two foreign spies, for example, talking to each other on foreign soil or two representatives of a foreign government, and they mention a US person -- that is incidental collection.

  3. Sorel Vorster:

    Very often Chiari is an incidental finding and if they don’t need immediate surgery we caution against it.

  4. Cyril Almeida:

    The blasphemy law is almost incidental to the larger trend of a radicalized society that has slipped out of the control of a weak state.

  5. Juan Mayorga:

    It has made a tremendous impact on the world's oceans, for each kilogram of shrimp, you could get up to 25 kilograms of incidental catch... There's no such thing as a selective bottom trawl.

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