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

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

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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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1. • Expense

Anagrams for incidental »

1. anticlined

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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. 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.

2. Cyril Almeida:

   The state is awkwardly trying to reassert its primacy, but generations now of Pakistanis have been raised with the belief that their version of religion trumps everything else, 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.

3. Ron DeSantis:

   I think that’s an important distinction to make when you have a variant like omicron which is much more widespread, you are going to have people who get into a car accident and go into the emergency room. They’re swabbing everybody, and you’re going to have people that have incidental positives.

4. Kevin Walsh:

   It is implausible to the extreme that an automatic, incidental, mechanical activity that largely saw no human contact could rise to the level of genocidal violation.

5. Susan Rice:

   I know nothing about this, i was surprised to see reports from Chairman Nunes on that count today … So today, I really don’t know to what Chairman Nunes on that count was referring. But Chairman Nunes on that count said that whatever Chairman Nunes on that count was referring to was a legal, lawful surveillance and that it was potentially incidental collection on American citizens.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=incidental
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Incidental
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=incidental
4. ^ ChatGPT
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