Incidental and Unintended

Incidental

Incidental adjective - Happening by chance.
Usage example: an incidental meeting of two ships in the middle of the Atlantic

Unintended and incidental are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Unintended" instead an adjective "Incidental".

Nearby Words: incident, incidence, incidentally

Unintended

Unintended adjective - Happening by chance.
Usage example: backyard digging that resulted in unintended damage to buried phone wires

Incidental and unintended are semantically related. You can use "Incidental" instead the word "Unintended" as an adjective or a noun.

Nearby Word: unintentional
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