Incidental and Set

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Incidental adjective - Happening by chance.

Usage example: an incidental meeting of two ships in the middle of the Atlantic

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Set is an antonym for incidental.

Nearby Words: incident, incidence, incidentally

Set adjective - Made, given, or done with full awareness of what one is doing.

Usage example: it was not my set purpose to cause trouble for anyone

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Incidental is an antonym for set.

Nearby Words: setup, setting

short incidental

short set

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