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Definition/Meaning

(adverb)

in an unintentional, happenstance manner;

e.g. I accidentally tripped and shattered my elbow.

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Similar Words

Adventitious

Alien

Casual

Chance

External

Extraneous

Extrinsic

Fluky

Foreign

Fortuitous

Higgledy-piggledy

Inadvertent

Incidental

Offhand

Supervenient

Unintended

Unintentional

Unplanned

Unpremeditated

Unwitting

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Opposite Words

Basic

Calculated

Congenital

Conscious

Deep-seated

Deliberate

Deliberately

Essential

Fixed

Foreseeable

Freewill

Inborn

Inbred

Inevitable

Inherent

Innate

Inside

Intended

Intentional

Intentionally

Interior

Internal

Intrinsic

Necessary

Predictable

Premeditated

Premeditative

Prepense

Purposely

Set

Unforced

Voluntary

Volunteer

Willful

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Related Words

Aimless

Anyhow

Anyway

Arbitrary

Coincidental

Desultory

Exterior

Forced

Freak

Haphazard

Helter-skelter

Hit-or-miss

Immaterial

Inapplicable

Insignificant

Involuntary

Irrelevant

Nonessential

Odd

Outside

Random

Unconscious

Unessential

Unexpected

Unforeseeable

Unforeseen

Unnecessary

Unprompted

Willy-nilly

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