| 单词 | incidental |
| 释义 | incidental (once / 654 pages) adjn Incidental means secondary in time or importance. If you lose weight because you moved and must walk further to school, the weight loss was incidental to the move. When something is incidental, it is never the main thing. It's okay to include incidental details as they can add depth to your storytelling, but they are never crucial to the story. A company might pay your main expenses when you travel for business but will probably not reimburse you for the incidental ones. The music you hear between acts of a play is called incidental. It's not crucial to the action, but it makes the waiting easier. WORD FAMILYincidental: incidentally, incidentals+/incidence: incidences/incident: incidence, incidental, incidently, incidents USAGE EXAMPLESThey don’t speak a word of the language; despite this incidental fact, if not because of it, they wept, too. Time(Dec 23, 2016) One incidental discovery, Dr. Lentink said, was a way to keep the bird goggles from fogging up. New York Times(Dec 21, 2016) Whether Leicester are in a position to allow the disappointments, however incidental, to pile up seems an increasingly relevant question. The Guardian(Dec 07, 2016) 1adj (sometimes followed by `to') minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence incidental expenses the road will bring other incidental advantages extra duties incidental to the job labor problems incidental to a rapid expansion confusion incidental to a quick change Syn|Ant incident omissible capable of being left out parenthetic, parentheticalqualifying or explaining; placed or as if placed in parentheses peripheralrelated to the key issue but not of central importance secondarydepending on or incidental to what is original or primary basic pertaining to or constituting a base or basis basal, baseserving as or forming a base elemental, elementary, primaryof or being the essential or basic part fundamental, rudimentary, underlyingbeing or involving basic facts or principles grassrootsfundamental radicalarising from or going to the root or source 2adj following or accompanying as a consequence snags incidental to the changeover in management Syn accompanying, attendant, concomitant, consequent, ensuant, resultant, sequent subsequent following in time or order 3adj not of prime or central importance Syn nonessential inessential, unessential not basic or fundamental 4n (frequently plural) an expense not budgeted or not specified he requested reimbursement of $7 for incidental expenses Syn|Hyper incidental expense, minor expense expense money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer 5n an item that is incidental Hyper item, point a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list |
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