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incidental Definition

in·ci·den·tal (in′sə dent'l)

adjective

    1. happening as a result of or in connection with something more important; casual incidental benefits
    2. likely to happen as a result or concomitant: with to troubles incidental to divorce
  1. secondary or minor, but usually associated incidental expenses

Etymology: ML incidentalis

noun

  1. something incidental
  2. miscellaneous or minor items or expenses

incidental Synonyms

incidental

modif.

subsidiary, as an incident of, concomitant, accidental; see accidental, related 2, trivial. See syn. study at accidental.

incidental Usage Examples

Adjective modifier

  • other: This could include items such as the estate agents fee if selling, stamp duty and other incidentals.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • include: Quotes given include work incidental to a mortgage of the property where we are simultaneously instructed by the mortgage lender.
  • take: Working holidaymakers must only intend to take employment incidental to their holiday and must not work for more than 12 months during their stay.

Modifies a noun

  • expense: In addition, all students must cover incidental expenses.
  • music: Playing with Time takes a look at the incidental music written for the story by composer Jonathan Gibbs.
  • damage: It has been seen that many modern taxes produce various kinds of incidental damage.
  • finding: Ethical consideration of incidental findings on adult brain MRI in research.
  • remark: Another incidental remark of Engels ' , also connected with the question of the state, deals with religion.
  • provision: This site has been funded, in part, from the Parliamentary incidental expenses provision.

Modifying Another Word

  • legitimately: The private benefits to the members were legitimately incidental.
  • merely: Have any been lost or were they merely incidental to cover the lapse of a year?
  • purely: Her metabolic abnormality was purely incidental, detected on " blind routine biochemistry " .
  • reasonably: Incidental Stopping for refreshment is thus clearly a purpose reasonably incidental to the use of a way and therefore not illegal.
  • almost: The guitar here is almost incidental to what's going on, which is something I never expected to feel about a Verlaine performance!
  • largely: In fact, although the AfH approach uses sustainable material and renewable energy, its inherent ' greenness ' is largely incidental.

Used with adjective complement

  • seem: Thorpe won two gold medals but on a quite extraordinary evening, that seemed merely incidental.
  • regard: When alcohol arises as an issue in civil litigation it is usually regarded as incidental to a legal problem rather than central to it.
  • become: Kicking the Moon draws the audience into their bizarre and quirky world, where impressive acrobatic and juggling skills become almost incidental.
  • remain: It is strange that in our world so few of these meetings take place and when they do, they remain so incidental.
  • include: The paper does not describe all the business written by Marine underwriters as this includes Incidental Non- Marine.
incidental Quotes

Quite as many false ideas prevail as to woman's true position in the home as to her status elsewhere. Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.

—Stanton, Elizabeth ne¤  e  Cady