incidental
incidental
Definition
in·ci·den·tal (in′sə dent′'l)
adjective
- happening as a result of or in connection with something more important; casual incidental benefits
- likely to happen as a result or concomitant: with to troubles incidental to divorce
- secondary or minor, but usually associated incidental expenses
Etymology: ML incidentalis
noun
- something incidental
- miscellaneous or minor items or expenses
incidental
Synonyms
incidental
modif.
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.
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