Accidental and Designed

Accidental

Accidental adjective - Happening by chance.

Designed is an antonym for accidental in topics: unintentional, happening unexpectedly.

Nearby Words: accident, accidentally, accidence

Designed

Designed adjective - Done or made or performed with purpose and intent.

Accidental is an antonym for designed.

Both words in one sentence

  • Ramming Always Works Also, the towers were specially designed to withstand airplane impacts, but it was assumed such collisions would be accidental involving aircraft approaching New York's airports and thus low on fuel.
  • Series / Scorpion He worked with them willingly until he was 16, when he left after their misuse of a computer program he designed caused the accidental deaths of thousands of civilians.
  • Film / Zombie Strippers It centres on the "accidental" infection of a strip joint by a virus designed to offset the American Army's disastrously high body count in several world conflicts.
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