 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
incidental
adjective
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}]
noun
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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Incidental \In'ci*den"tal\, noun
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Incidental \In'ci*den"tal\, adjective
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.
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},
adverb -- {In'ci*den"tal*ness}, noun
I treat either or incidentally of colors. --Boyle.
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
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