adventitious
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- associated by chance and not an integral part; - Frederick W. Robertson
- "they had to decide whether his misconduct was adventitious or the result of a flaw in his character"
Adj
- From an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign.
- Accidental, additional, appearing casually.
- Not congenital; acquired.
- Developing in an unusual place or from an unusual source.
Origin / Etymology
From Medieval Latin adventītius (“coming from abroad, extraneous”), a corruption of Latin adventīcius (“foreign, strange, accidental”), from adventus (“arrival, coming, approach, advent”) + -īcius (suffix forming adjectives), from adveniō (“to arrive”) + -tus (suffix forming action nouns).
Synonyms
;, accidental, accidentary, acquired, adventitious, by accident, by the by, casual, causeless, chanceable, coincidental, exogenous, extrinsic, fortuitous, incidental, lippening, occasional, random, serendipitous, spontaneous, sporadic, unforeseen, unintended, unintentional, unplanned
Scrabble Score: 16
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