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Incidental   /ˌɪnsɪdˈɛntəl/   Listen
Incidental

adjective
1.
(sometimes followed by 'to') minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence.  Synonym: incident.  "The road will bring other incidental advantages" , "Extra duties incidental to the job" , "Labor problems incidental to a rapid expansion" , "Confusion incidental to a quick change"  Antonym: basic.
2.
Not of prime or central importance.  Synonym: nonessential.
3.
Following or accompanying as a consequence.  Synonyms: accompanying, attendant, concomitant, consequent, ensuant, resultant, sequent.  "Snags incidental to the changeover in management" , "Attendant circumstances" , "The period of tension and consequent need for military preparedness" , "The ensuant response to his appeal" , "The resultant savings were considerable"
noun
1.
(frequently plural) an expense not budgeted or not specified.  Synonyms: incidental expense, minor expense.
2.
An item that is incidental.



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"Incidental" Quotes from Famous Books



... reduce the annoyance of preparing oxygen, the use of the usual thin copper conical bottle should be avoided. The makers of steel gas bottles provide retorts of wrought iron or steel for oxygen-making, and these do very well. They have the incidental advantage of being strong enough to resist the attacks of a servant when a ...
— On Laboratory Arts • Richard Threlfall
... process, to have struck any one that this rich phosphatic bye-product might prove a valuable addition to our artificial fertilisers. The result was, that the Thomas-slag was treated as another of the only too numerous valueless bye-products which seem to be necessarily incidental to most of our chemical and other manufactures, and was allowed to accumulate in large quantities without being ...
— Manures and the principles of manuring • Charles Morton Aikman
... fighting space they hung, body to body, in a whirling melee. Neither had much skill in real boxing, and such fashion of fight was unknown in that region, the offensive being the main thing and defense remaining incidental. The thud of fist on face, the discoloration that rose under the savage blows, the blood that oozed and scattered, proved that the fighting blood of both these mad creatures was up, so that they felt no pain, even ...
— The Covered Wagon • Emerson Hough
... Incidental to intellectual culture in college is the ability to find promptly the information we want. "Next to knowing a thing," says Dr. Johnson, "is to know where to find it." No student can become a walking encyclopaedia, but he should learn while in college how to avail himself advantageously of ...
— Colleges in America • John Marshall Barker
... the head-stone of Wordsworth's grave, and plucks it away with his own hands, reflecting that it may have drawn its nourishment from his mortal remains. We may suppose that he preserved this grass, and it is only from such incidental circumstances that we discover who were Hawthorne's favorites among poets and other distinguished writers. He twice ...
— The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne • Frank Preston Stearns


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