incidental
happening or likely to happen in an unplanned or subordinate conjunction with something else.
incurred casually and in addition to the regular or main amount: incidental expenses.
likely to happen or naturally appertaining (usually followed by to).
something incidental, as a circumstance.
incidentals, minor expenses.
Origin of incidental
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Other words from incidental
- in·ci·den·tal·ness, noun
- non·in·ci·den·tal, adjective
- non·in·ci·den·tal·ly, adverb
- un·in·ci·den·tal, adjective
- un·in·ci·den·tal·ly, adverb
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How to use incidental in a sentence
Medical professionals continue to push back against a body-worn camera video released by the Sheriff’s Department purporting to show a deputy overdosing from incidental contact with fentanyl in a San Marcos parking lot in July.
Morning Report: RIP, These Highway Projects | Voice of San Diego | August 11, 2021 | Voice of San DiegoMany breakthrough cases seem to be entirely asymptomatic, only being detected through routine or incidental testing.
COVID cases are plaguing the Olympics even before they’ve begun | Lauren Leffer | July 19, 2021 | Popular-ScienceIt found “incidental deficiencies” that did not merit any fines or corrective action.
A Postal Worker Begged for Stronger COVID-19 Protections. She Ended Up Spending Six Weeks in the Hospital. | by Maryam Jameel | July 16, 2021 | ProPublicaBy contrast, retailing plays an almost incidental role in “Amazon Unbound.”
How did Amazon grow so fast? By thinking outside the shipping box. | Marc Levinson | May 7, 2021 | Washington PostOne incidental benefit of the charter school movement is that it put pressure on traditional public schools – and society as a whole – to do something about it.
The Learning Curve: Eli Broad’s Complicated Ed Reform Legacy | Will Huntsberry | May 6, 2021 | Voice of San Diego
Those are troubling numbers, for unfettered speech is not incidental to a flourishing society.
Decorative value is largely incidental to artistic merit as defined by critics.
Sneer and Clothing in Miami: Inside The $3 Billion Woodstock of Contemporary Art | Jay Michaelson | December 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe party the mayor seeks is one in which inequality is the central focus of the platform rather than incidental to it.
DINO Hunters Are Dreaming Hipster Dreams of the DNC in Brooklyn | David Freedlander | August 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe problem of “incidental impact” arises in many different contexts.
Waiting for the Supreme Court on the Hobby Lobby Decision | Geoffrey R. Stone | June 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDo not mistake the epic graft in Sochi as unusual or incidental.
Putin’s Sochi and Hitler’s Berlin: The Love Affair Between Dictators and the Olympic Games. | Garry Kasparov | February 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTCasual employment in the Connecticut act means occasional or incidental employment.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman | Albert Sidney BollesHow just is this sentiment, so simply phrased, incidental to the passionate and feverish colour of the painter!
Charles Baudelaire, His Life | Thophile GautierFor the first time it was no longer disguised from sight by the incidental interest of its side issues.
The English Church in the Eighteenth Century | Charles J. Abbey and John H. Overtonincidental features of sex hygiene will arise naturally from physical education and can be adequately treated there.
Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents | Oswald Chettle Mazengarb et al.The painter will do well to look on them as something incidental merely to the picture.
The Painter in Oil | Daniel Burleigh Parkhurst
British Dictionary definitions for incidental
/ (ˌɪnsɪˈdɛntəl) /
happening in connection with or resulting from something more important; casual or fortuitous
(postpositive foll by to) found in connection (with); related (to)
(postpositive foll by upon) caused (by)
occasional or minor: incidental expenses
(often plural) an incidental or minor expense, event, or action
Derived forms of incidental
- incidentalness, noun
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