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coincidental adjective [ kəʊɪnsɪˈdɛnt(ə)l ]

• resulting from a coincidence; happening by chance.
• "any resemblance between their reports is purely coincidental"
Similar: accidental, chance, occurring by chance/accident, fortuitous, adventitious, fluky, casual, serendipitous, random, aleatory, unexpected, unforeseen, unanticipated, unforeseeable, unlooked-for, unintentional, unintended, inadvertent, involuntary, unplanned, unpremeditated, unthinking, unmeant,
Opposite: intentional, planned,
• happening or existing at the same time.
• "it's convenient that his plan is coincidental with the group's closure"
Similar: simultaneous, concurrent, coincident, contemporaneous, concomitant, synchronous, coexistent, at the same time (as),


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