be accidental

Frequency: 8.025.5 per million words

Used to state that something happened by chance and was not planned or intended.

accidentalVERBS + accidental

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Examples (10)

  • The police determined that the fire was accidental.
  • The discovery is purely accidental; we were looking for something else.
  • Do you think their meeting was accidental or did they arrange it beforehand?
  • He insisted the collision wasn't accidental and accused the other driver of malice.
  • The data leak was entirely accidental, caused by a system misconfiguration.
  • Any resemblance to real events is completely accidental.
  • Our finding of the hidden cave was accidental, a lucky turn on a long hike.
  • Please believe me, spilling the coffee on your laptop was accidental.
  • The investigation showed the overdose must have been accidental.
  • If a character's name matches a real person's, it is accidental.