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Accidental
ˌaksɪˈdɛntl
Accidental definitions
adjective
accidental
- happening by chance, unintentionally, or unexpectedly
"a verdict of accidental death"
fortuitous chance occurring by chance/accident adventitious fluky coincidental casual serendipitous random aleatory - incidental; subsidiary
"the location is accidental and contributes nothing to the poem"
incidental unimportant by the way by the by supplementary subsidiary subordinate secondary marginal minor lesser accessory peripheral tangential extraneous extrinsic parenthetical irrelevant immaterial beside the point of little account unnecessary non-essential inessential - (in Aristotelian thought) relating to or denoting properties which are not essential to a thing's nature
noun
accidental
accidentals
- a sign indicating a momentary departure from the key signature by raising or lowering a note
"horn parts are usually written without key signature, the necessary accidentals being added"