incidental

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
美 [ɪnsɪˈdɛ.ɾ̃əl]|[ɪnsɪˈdɛn.tʰəl]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Minor items, not further defined. Incidental expense.
    — She's costing us a lot in incidentals.
  2. Something that is incidental.
形容词 adj.
  1. Loosely associated; of limited relevance except indirectly; only accidentally related.
    — That character, though colorful, is incidental to the overall plot.
  2. Existing tangentially, being a byproduct, a tangent, or a likely consequence.
    — Injuries are incidental to contact sports: they're going to happen.
  3. Occurring by chance.
  4. Entering or approaching, prior to reflection (more frequently incident).

词形变化

more incidental comparative most incidental superlative incidentals plural

词汇关系

近义词
contingent serendipitous
反义词
inevitable necessary impossible intentional
衍生词
coincidental incidental expense incidentally incidental music incidentalness incidentaloma incidentalome nonincidental unincidental
相关词
incident incidence

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English incident
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English incidental
From incident + -al.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English incident
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English incidental
From incident + -al.
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