Definition:
- (n.) Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident.
- (n.) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case.
- (n.) A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.
- (n.) A property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute.
- (n.) A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness.
- (n.) Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident.
- (n.) Unusual appearance or effect.
Compare accident with other words:
accident vs. occident
accident vs. assault
accident vs. catastrophe
accident vs. collision
accident vs. casual
accident vs. mischance
accident vs. occasion
accident vs. hazard
accident vs. misfall
accident vs. loca
accident vs. periculum
accident vs. repertitious
accident vs. mobile
accident vs. case
accident vs. disaster
accident vs. crime
accident vs. sin
accident vs. crash
accident vs. emergency
accident vs. episode
accident vs. fortuity
accident vs. predicable
accident vs. haply
accident vs. alarm
accident vs. mistake
accident vs. adventure
accident vs. hoarding
accident vs. coincidental
accident vs. incidental
accident vs. coincide
accident vs. prang
accident vs. wrecked
accident vs. essence
accident vs. attribute
accident vs. misread
accident vs. meet
accident vs. befall
accident vs. lose
accident vs. accidental
accident vs. casualty
accident vs. chance
accident vs. contingency
accident vs. manifestation
accident vs. befalling
accident vs. hostile
accident vs. force
accident vs. enemy
accident vs. exclusive
accident vs. calculation
accident vs. interference
accident vs. extraordinary
accident vs. extraneous
accident vs. casus
accident vs. omitted
accident vs. retained
accident vs. point
accident vs. mark
accident vs. number
accident vs. essential
accident vs. gender
accident vs. softness
accident vs. property
accident vs. sweetness
accident vs. substance
accident vs. incontinence
accident vs. pregnancy
accident vs. distinction
accident vs. nonessential
accident vs. relation
accident vs. death
accident vs. fact
accident vs. event
accident vs. damage
accident vs. injury
accident vs. incident
accident vs. accidentally
accidence vs. accident
accident vs. mishap