accident
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *ḱad- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *ḱádeti Proto-Italic *kadō Latin cadō Latin accidō Latin accidēnslbor. Old French accidentbor. Middle English accident English accident First attested in the late 14th century. From Middle English accident, from Old French accident, from Latin accidēns, present active participle of accidō (“happen”); from ad (“to”) + cadō (“fall”). See cadence, case. In the sense “unintended pregnancy”, first attested in 1932.
Definitions
An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one…
An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences, and (in the strict sense) not directly caused by humans.
- to die by an accident such as an act of God
- Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, / Of moving accidents by flood and field[…]
A collision or crash of a vehicle, aircraft, or other form of transportation that causes…
A collision or crash of a vehicle, aircraft, or other form of transportation that causes damage to the transportation involved; and sometimes injury or death to the transportation's occupants or bystanders in close proximity. (but see Usage notes)
- There was a huge accident on I5 involving 15 automobiles.
- My insurance went up after the second accident in three months.
Any chance event.
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Chance
Chance; random chance.
- c.1861-1863, Richard Chevenix Trench, in 1888, Letters and memorials, Volume 1, Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident, / It is the very place God meant for thee; […]
- And so with his writing, which he proudly said was a perfect counterpart of his life. Accident played a major part in both.
Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential or…
Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential or nonsubstantive.
- Beauty is an accident.
- Lexical gaps are called accidental because their existence is by accident; it is not essential.
- This accident, as I call it, of Athens being situated some miles from the sea, which is rather the consequence of its being a very ancient site,[…]
An instance of incontinence.
An unintended pregnancy.
An irregular surface feature with no apparent cause.
A sudden discontinuity of ground such as fault of great thickness, bed or lentil of…
A sudden discontinuity of ground such as fault of great thickness, bed or lentil of unstable ground.
A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.
Synonym of accidental.
Designating any form of transportation involved in an accident.
- The NTSB report revealed that the accident airplane was a Cessna 172.
A town in Garrett County, Maryland, United States.
The neighborhood
- synonymmishapunexpected event with negative consequences
- synonymbefallingunexpected event that takes place without foresight or expectation
- synonymchance
- synonymcontingency
- synonymcasualty
- synonymluck
- synonymcasus
- synonymaccident
- synonymfortuity
- antonymintention
- antonyminevitability
- antonymimpossibility
- neighborcircumstance
- neighborcoincidence
- neighborhappenstance
- neighboraccidental
- neighboraccidentally
- neighboroccurrence
- neighborpossibility
- neighbormischance
- neighbormisfortune
- neighbormishap
- neighborwoe
Derived
accidental, accidentality, accidentally, accident and emergency, accidentary, accident blackspot, accident insurance, accidently, accident neurosis, accident of birth, accidentologist, accidentology, accident-prone, accident rate, accident waiting to happen, by accident, cerebrovascular accident, criticality accident, freak accident, have an accident, industrial accident, it is no accident, malaccident, motor accident, nonaccident, on accident, POLAC, postaccident, road accident, snaccident, textident, vaccident, vaxident, vaxxident, without accident
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at accident. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at accident. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at accident
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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