Usually means: Unplanned, occurring without deliberate intent.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. accidental: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. accidental: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. accidental: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. accidental: Collins English Dictionary
  5. accidental: Vocabulary.com
  6. Accidental, accidental: Wordnik
  7. accidental: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. accidental: Wiktionary
  9. accidental: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. accidental: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. accidental: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Accidental, accidental: Dictionary.com
  13. accidental: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Accidental (album), Accidental (biology), Accidental (music), Accidental, The Accidental (band), The Accidental: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Accidental: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. accidental: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. accidental: Rhymezone
  18. Accidental: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. accidental: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. accidental: Free Dictionary
  21. accidental: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. accidental: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. accidental: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. accidental: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. accidental: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Accidental (disambiguation), accidental: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Accidental (disambiguation): Encyclopedia
  2. accidental: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Accidental (disambiguation), accidental: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. accidental: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. accidental: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. accidental: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CAVE AND KARST TERMINOLOGY (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See accidentally as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Pertaining to accident and not essence; thus, inessential; incidental; secondary.
adjective:  (philosophy) Nonessential to something's inherent nature (especially in Aristotelian thought).
adjective:  (music) Adjusted by one or two semitones, in temporary departure from the key signature.
adjective:  Occurring sometimes, by chance; occasional.
adjective:  Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; by accident, unintentional.
adjective:  (geometry) Being a double point with two distinct tangent planes in 4-dimensional projective space.
noun:  A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally.
noun:  (painting, plural only) Those fortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow.
noun:  (music) A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note.
noun:  Part of a text that has a mainly structural purpose, such as spelling, punctuation, or capitalization.

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