About The Word Adventitious
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Adventitious
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What's The Definition Of Adventitious?
[adj] 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 | Synonyms for Adventitious: accidental | extrinsic Related Terms | Find terms related to Adventitious: 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 See Also | Adventitious In Webster's Dictionary \Ad`ven*ti"tious\, a. [L. adventitius.]
1. Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental
or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign.
To things of great dimensions, if we annex an
adventitious idea of terror, they become without
comparison greater. --Burke.
2. (Nat. Hist.) Out of the proper or usual place; as,
adventitious buds or roots.
3. (Bot.) Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country
or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied
to foreign plants.
4. (Med.) Acquired, as diseases; accidental. --
{Ad`ven*ti"tious*ly}, adv. -- {Ad`ven*ti"tious*ness}, n.
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