Synonyms of adventitious

Adjective


1. adventitious, extrinsic (vs. intrinsic)

usage: 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"

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