Incidental

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Incidental \In`ci*den"tal\, a.
     Happening, as an occasional event, without regularity; coming
     without design; casual; accidental; hence, not of prime
     concern; subordinate; collateral; as, an incidental
     conversation; an incidental occurrence; incidental expenses.
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           By some, religious duties . . . appear to be regarded .
           . . as an incidental business.           --Rogers.
  
     Syn: Accidental; casual; fortuitous; contingent; chance;
          collateral. See {Accidental}. -- {In`ci*den"tal*ly},
          adv. -- {In`ci*den"tal*ness}, n.
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                I treat either or incidentally of colors. --Boyle.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Incidental \In`ci*den"tal\, n.
     An incident; that which is incidental; esp., in the plural,
     an aggregate of subordinate or incidental items not
     particularized; as, the expense of tuition and incidentals.
     --Pope.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  incidental
       adj 1: (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" [syn: {incident}] [ant:
              {basic}]
       2: following as a consequence; "an excessive growth of
          bureaucracy, with related problems"; "snags incidental to
          the changeover in management" [syn: {accompanying}, {attendant},
           {concomitant}, {incidental to(p)}]
       3: not of prime or central importance; "nonessential to the
          integral meanings of poetry"- Pubs.MLA [syn: {nonessential}]
       n 1: (frequently plural) an expense not budgeted or not
            specified; "he requested reimbursement of $7 for
            incidental expenses" [syn: {incidental expense}, {minor
            expense}]
       2: an item that is incidental

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  166 Moby Thesaurus words for "incidental":
     accessory, acciaccatura, accident, accidental, accompanying,
     addendum, addition, additional, adjunct, ado, adrift, adscititious,
     adventitious, afloat, afoot, aleatory, ancillary, appendage,
     appoggiatura, appurtenance, appurtenant, arabesque, article,
     ascititious, aspect, auxiliary, beside the mark, beside the point,
     beside the question, by-the-way, cadence, cadenza, case, casual,
     causeless, chance, chancy, circumstantial, collateral, coloratura,
     conditional, contingency, contingent, count, current, datum,
     destinal, detail, dicey, division, doing, element, embellishment,
     eventuating, extra, extraneous, extrinsic, facet, fact, factor,
     fatal, fatidic, fioritura, flight, flourish, fluky, fortuitous,
     going on, grace, grace note, haphazard, happening, happenstance,
     iffy, immaterial, impertinent, in hand, in the wind, inadmissible,
     inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, incidental note,
     inconsequent, inconsequential, indeterminate, inessential,
     insignificant, instance, irrelative, irrelevant, item, lesser,
     long mordent, matter, mere chance, minor, minor detail, minutia,
     minutiae, mordent, negligible, nihil ad rem, nonessential,
     not at issue, not-self, occasional, occurring, odd, off,
     off the subject, on, on foot, ongoing, ornament, other,
     out-of-the-way, paltry, parenthetical, part-time, particular,
     passage, passing, petty, point, pralltriller, prevailing,
     prevalent, provisional, random, regard, respect, resultant, risky,
     roulade, run, secondary, serendipitous, side, single mordent,
     spare, subordinate, subsidiary, superadded, superaddition,
     superfluous, supervenient, supplement, supplemental, supplementary,
     taking place, thing, trifling, trivial, turn, uncaused, under way,
     undetermined, unessential, unexpected, unforeseeable, unforeseen,
     unimportant, unlooked-for, unplanned, unpredictable