'adventitious' definitions:
Definition of 'adventitious'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Associated by chance and not an integral part; "poetry is something to which words are the accidental, not by any means the essential form"- Frederick W. Robertson; "they had to decide whether his misconduct was adventitious or the result of a flaw in his character"
Synonyms of 'adventitious'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accessory,
- accidental,
- additional,
- adscititious,
- aleatory,
- appurtenant,
- ascititious,
- auxiliary,
- casual,
- causeless,
- chance,
- chancy,
- circumstantial,
- collateral,
- conditional,
- contingent,
- destinal,
- dicey,
- extra,
- fatal,
- fatidic,
- fluky,
- fortuitous,
- iffy,
- incidental,
- indeterminate,
- inessential,
- nonessential,
- occasional,
- provisional,
- risky,
- secondary,
- subsidiary,
- superadded,
- superfluous,
- supervenient,
- supplemental,
- supplementary,
- uncaused,
- undetermined,
- unessential,
- unexpected,
- unforeseeable,
- unforeseen,
- unlooked-for,
- unpredictable