英语词汇“adventitious”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

adj

Adventitious is a word you use to talk about things that "just kind of happen," not because you are trying to do them, but because they just come along.

Christopher Columbus's stumbling upon the Caribbean while searching for a new route to India was adventitious. When you make an adventitious rhyme while speaking, you might hear, "You're a poet, you didn't know it, your long feet show it."

WORD FAMILY

adventitious: adventitiously

USAGE EXAMPLES

Many commenters suggested that we establish a “threshold” for the unintended or adventitious presence of products of excluded methods in organic products.

Forbes(May 28, 2014)

I have also noticed two tiny eruptions of adventitious buds on what might be thought of as its main trunk.

Washington Post(May 22, 2014)

Note that this is distinct from the adventitious breeding of swallows on British outbuildings or barns.

The Guardian(Jul 27, 2013)

adj associated by chance and not an integral part

they had to decide whether his misconduct was adventitious or the result of a flaw in his character

Syn

extrinsic

not forming an essential part of a thing or arising or originating from the outside

单词	adventitious
释义	adventitious (once / 7965 pages) adj Adventitious is a word you use to talk about things that "just kind of happen," not because you are trying to do them, but because they just come along. Christopher Columbus's stumbling upon the Caribbean while searching for a new route to India was adventitious. When you make an adventitious rhyme while speaking, you might hear, "You're a poet, you didn't know it, your long feet show it." WORD FAMILY adventitious: adventitiously USAGE EXAMPLES Many commenters suggested that we establish a “threshold” for the unintended or adventitious presence of products of excluded methods in organic products. Forbes(May 28, 2014) I have also noticed two tiny eruptions of adventitious buds on what might be thought of as its main trunk. Washington Post(May 22, 2014) Note that this is distinct from the adventitious breeding of swallows on British outbuildings or barns. The Guardian(Jul 27, 2013) adj associated by chance and not an integral part they had to decide whether his misconduct was adventitious or the result of a flaw in his character Syn extrinsic not forming an essential part of a thing or arising or originating from the outside
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