Accident

What do we mean by accident?

An unexpected and undesirable event, especially one resulting in damage or harm. noun

An unforeseen event that is not the result of intention or has no apparent cause. noun

An instance of involuntary urination or defecation. noun

Lack of intention; chance. noun

A circumstance or attribute that is not essential to the nature of something. noun

In general, anything that happens or begins to be without design, or as an unforeseen effect; that which falls out by chance; a fortuitous event or circumstance. noun

Specifically, an undesirable or unfortunate happening; an undesigned harm or injury; a casualty or mishap. noun

The operation of chance; an undesigned contingency; a happening without intentional causation; chance; fortune: as, it was the result of accident; I was there by accident. noun

That which exists or occurs abnormally; something unusual or phenomenal; an uncommon occurrence or appearance. noun

Irregularity; unevenness; abruptness. noun

An irregularity of surface; an undulation: as, the enemy was favored by the accidents of the ground. noun

A non-essential. noun

In grammar, a variation or inflection of a word, not essential to its primary signification, but marking a modification of its relation, as gender, number, and case. See accidence. noun

Synonyms Chance, mischance, hap, mishap, fortune, misfortune, luck, bad luck, casualty, calamity, disaster. noun

Property, Attribute, etc. See quality. noun

Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap. noun

A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case. noun

A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms. noun

An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences.

Especially, a collision or similar unintended event that causes damage or death.

Any chance event.

Chance.

Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential.

An instance of incontinence.

An unintended pregnancy.

A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness.

(grammar) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, such as gender, number, or case.

An irregular surface feature with no apparent cause.

A sudden discontinuity of ground such as fault of great thickness, bed or lentil of unstable ground.

A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.

Casus; such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation.

Appearance, manifestation.

Words that are spelled similarly to accident:
accident, occident, accent, incident, ancient, accidence, assident, accidents, accipient, accolent, accidente, ambident, acridest.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word accident:
coma, collision, wheelchair, crash, occurred, investigation, injuries, injured, involving, emergency, fatal, happened, driver, insurance, disaster, driving, flight, compensation, explosion, caused, truck, incident, lap, recovered, seriously, train, safety, aviation, car, error, recovery, killed, leg, nuclear, pilot, resulted, injury, hospital, aircraft, failure.

Adjectives that are often used to describe accident:
mere, serious, fatal, historical, unfortunate, terrible, happy, tragic, nuclear, cerebrovascular, pure, industrial, bad, lucky, fortunate, major, cerebral, sheer, minor, sad, merest, severe, similar, single, strange, inevitable, slight, dreadful, unlucky, unforeseen, horrible, rare, untoward, unavoidable, recent, worst, unhappy, sudden, near, curious, singular, slightest, vascular, extraordinary, nasty, run, unexpected, trifling, post, melancholy, odd, related, catastrophic, coolant, trivial, disastrous, frightful, occasional, stupid, dangerous, fortuitous, awful, unusual, mysterious, painful, geographical, historic, least, pre, biological, deplorable, apparent, remarkable, vehicular.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective accident:
proneness, facts, prone, prevention, insurance, neurosis, free, investigation, health, victims, compensation, related, grantsville, frequency, cause, involved, experience, probabilities, policies, stories, reports, analysis, research, bittinger, avoidance, report, investigators, statistics, mistakeleave, repeater, emergency, records, vulnerability.

Consonant match to accident:
occident, oxidant, excedent.

Words that sound like accident:
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