adj
Abbreviation of accidental. [Pertaining to accident and not essence; thus, inessential; incidental; secondary.]
n
(grammar) The accidents or inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar.
n
(law) casus; such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation.
n
(idiomatic) A fact, situation, or personal characteristic, which may be desirable or undesirable, resulting from the circumstances into which a person was born, and which is therefore entirely beyond their control.
n
Frequency or rate of accidents.
adj
Susceptible to accidents or mishaps.
n
A death caused by involvement in an accident, defined in particular as a verdict in an inquest or inquiry into the death.
n
(law) An unforeseen occurrence beyond one's control, such as a natural disaster.
adv
Accidentally; by chance.
adj
Obsolete form of casual. [Happening by chance.]
n
Something that happens by chance, especially an unfortunate event; an accident, a disaster.
n
An accident which due prudence could not have prevented.
adj
Happening by chance, casual.
adj
(obsolete) Happening by chance; accidental; fortuitous; casual
adv
by chance or coincidence
adj
subject to chance; random
n
(dated, uncountable) The unforeseen course of events.
adv
In respect to circumstances; not essentially; accidentally.
n
An unforeseen, inopportune, or embarrassing event.
adj
(rare) Inclined to delay
adv
(West Midlands) didn't
adj
Not hasty or sudden; slow.
n
Moment of theoretical suspension of all action.
adv
In a fluky way; with unexpected luck.
adj
(obsolete) Fortuitous.
adj
Happening by chance; coincidental, accidental.
adj
Alternative form of fortuitous [Happening by chance; coincidental, accidental.]
n
(countable) A fortuitous event; an accident.
adv
Misconstruction of fortunately. [In a fortunate manner.]
n
An incident, especially one that is harmful, occurring under highly unusual and unlikely circumstances.
n
Simple chance, a random accident, luck.
n
(uncountable) The chance or random quality of an event or circumstance.
adj
Being or relating to happenstance.
adv
(rare) By happenstance; occurring due to random chance.
n
A (relatively minor) event that is incidental to, or related to others.
n
An accident that occurs as the result of industrial work.
n
An adage which proposes that every act has unintended consequences.
n
(idiomatic) poor chances; unlikeliness, improbability
adj
Having been missing or unknown for a long period of time.
adj
(of a person) Physically located in a remote place where one is unnoticed or incommunicado.
n
A missing persons case involving a person who has been missing for an extended period of time.
n
An unfortunate incident.
n
A person whose whereabouts are unknown and who is being sought.
v
(hortative) It is not important; do not fret; used to reassure or comfort the person to whom it is said.
n
A vote of no confidence.
n
(colloquial, often childish) Something that is forbidden, prohibited, discouraged or taboo.
v
(informal) To not know; to have no idea.
adj
(idiomatic, colloquial, US) No longer in quiet and comfortable surroundings
n
(rare) Something which obsoletes something else.
n
(idiomatic) A possibility that is not likely or probable.
n
Alternative spelling of off chance [(idiomatic) A possibility that is not likely or probable.]
n
Alternative form of off chance [(idiomatic) A possibility that is not likely or probable.]
adj
Fortunate, as if occurring through the intervention of Providence.
adj
by serendipity; by unexpected good fortune
n
The occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.
n
An object whose name is forgotten by, unknown or unimportant to the user, e.g., from words of a song. Also used to refer to an object earlier indefinitely referred to as 'something' (pronoun sense).
adv
Happening quickly and with little or no warning; in a sudden manner.
adj
(grammar) Expressing a wish that something will not happen, as in "May we never experience such hardship".
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