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- pronunciation:
- aek
sih
den
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- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Builder, Word Explorer, Word Parts
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adjective |
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happening by chance; not planned or expected.
Their meeting was completely accidental.- synonyms:
- casual, chance
- antonyms:
- deliberate, intentional, planned, willful
- similar words:
- random, stray
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| related words: |
careless, offhand |
adverb + (adj.)accidental
entirely, hardly, merely
(adj.)accidental
+ noun
addition,
arrival,
blaze,
brush,
bump,
butt,
by-product,
byproduct,
carbon,
catch,
celebrity,
chemical,
circumstance,
clash,
collision,
contact,
crash,
damage,
death,
destruction,
detonation,
discharge,
discovery,
drowning,
elbow,
encounter,
existence,
explosion,
exposure,
fall,
fire,
firing,
happening,
harm,
hostility,
hypothermia,
infection,
injury,
introduction,
killing,
launch,
launching,
leak,
missile,
murder,
nature,
needle,
overdose,
pigment,
pill,
poisoning,
release,
resemblance,
shooting,
sighting,
slip,
spill,
spore,
stick,
suffocation,
touch,
tourist,
trauma,
twist,
virgin,
witness,
wound
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| derivation: |
accidentally (adv.) |
Word Builder: accidental +
- accidentally:
by accident.
The word accidental
contains the following parts:
ac-
Latin
prefix
that means to, toward
  More about this word part:
The prefix ac-
occurs in Latin loanwords. It is an assimilated form of ad- used before Latin roots beginning with hard or soft "c" or "q." See ad-.
Example words:
accelerate, accent, accept, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accident, accidental, acclaim, accommodate, accompany, accomplice, accomplish, accord, account, accumulate, accuracy, accurate, accuse, accustom, acquaint, acquire, acquit
cad, cas, cid2
Latin
root
that means to fall
Example words:
-al2, -ial, -ual
Latin
adjective-forming suffix
that means pertaining to
More about this word part:
The suffix -al2, -ial
attaches primarily to nouns ( national
, environmental
) but sometimes to Latin or Greek roots ( final
, capital
, comical
) to form adjectives. See also -ar1.
Example words:
abnormal, accidental, additional, aerial, annual, artificial, biblical, brutal, capital, central, chemical, classical, coastal, colonial, comical, commercial, confidential, constitutional, continual, controversial, conventional, criminal, critical, crucial, cultural, cylindrical, dental, detrimental, developmental, economical, editorial, educational, electrical, emotional, environmental, essential, equal, exceptional, experimental, facial, factual, federal, final, financial, floral, formal, functional, fundamental, general, global, grammatical, habitual, historical, hysterical, illogical, immoral, impersonal, impractical, individual, industrial, influential, internal, legal, local, logical, lyrical, magical, mathematical, memorial, mental, moral, mortal, musical, mythical, national, natural, nautical, neutral, normal, official, parental, personal, plural, political, potential, racial, rational, regional, irrational, intellectual, rhythmical, seasonal, spinal, spiritual, technological, thermal, tidal, traditional, tribal, typical, universal, unnatural, verbal, virtual, vocal, visual
-ant, -ent
Latin
adjective- and noun-forming suffix
that means (in adjectives) doing the action denoted by the verb root; (in nouns) one who or that which does the action denoted by the verb root.
More about this word part:
The suffix -ant
, -ent
forms adjectives and, to a much lesser extent, nouns from Latin verb stems such as fid in confident
and stud in student
. This suffix is the equivalent in Latin of the "-ing" inflection in English. Many adjectives ending in -ant
, -ent
have a corresponding noun ending in -ance, -ence, -ancy, -ency.
Example words:
accident, accidental, adjacent, affluent, agent, antecedent, applicant, arrogant, complacent, confident, consultant, continent, current, dependent, different, disinfectant, dominant, efficient, eloquent, extravagant, fluent, hydrant, ignorant, important, incessant, indignant, parent, participant, patient, precedent, president, prudent, pungent, reluctant, resident, resonant, servant, significant, student, vacant
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