Nature
Synonyms for accidental
Synonyms for accidental: incidental and inadvertent. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for accidental
- incidentaladjective, in the sense "not of prime or central importance"
- inadvertentadjective, in the sense "happening by chance or unexpectedly or unintentionally"
Two senses of accidental, two audited synonyms, one for each. The bank does not stack alternatives under a sense it has not separated.
not of prime or central importance
The character's motives remain accidental to the plot.
The true synonym
incidental
Same sentence, swapped: The character's motives remain incidental to the plot.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- dominant
- sharp
- flat
happening by chance or unexpectedly or unintentionally
An accidental shooting.
The true synonym
inadvertent
Same sentence, swapped: An inadvertent shooting.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- incidental
- occasional
- collateral
Where accidental turns up in the game
accidental is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where accidental is the trap
- provisionaladjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is tentative, in the sense "under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon", and accidental is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play accidental
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so accidental reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because nature is the company accidental keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. accidental carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.