词汇 | coincidental |
释义 | coincidental adjective uk /kəʊˌɪn.sɪˈden.təl/ us /koʊˌɪn.səˈden.t̬əl/ happening by coincidence碰巧的;巧合的 happening by chance with no cause or reason randomIt was a random encounter between two long-lost friends. chanceA chance meeting brought them back together. arbitraryIt seems like the decision to cancel such a successful TV programme was completely arbitrary. haphazardHer cabinets were stuffed with a haphazard jumble of books, clothes, tins of soup, and papers. coincidentalAny similarity between the characters in this book and real people, living or dead, is purely coincidental. inadvertentA good editor will catch and correct all inadvertent typos in a text. Occurring and happening afoot asynchronous asynchronously attend attendant be at workidiom ensuing eventuate fall into placeidiom follow on go hand in hand with somethingidiom go off gone pass resynchronize roll roll around shake out succeed supervene Related wordcoincidentally Examples of coincidentalcoincidental They extricate themselves from appalling conditions and bravely confront their villainous oppressors, while through coincidental circumstances they are elevated to a higher social position. However, their similar effects would then be viewed as merely coincidental. Indeed, it may not be coincidental that lesion sites associated with agrammatic comprehension overlap with regions supporting verbal working memory. They were conceived by in-vitro fertilisation, which may be of aetiological importance, or merely coincidental. The simplest explanation is that these changes are non-adaptive coincidental sideeffects of parasite infection. The occurrence of long inscriptions on pottery vessels at this time hardly seems coincidental. Any phonetic equivalence would be purely coincidental in these theories. This book confirms that these processes were not coincidental in their timing, but were in fact closely bound up with one another. The few successes that have appeared, moreover, might be coincidental. The similarity amongst these results appears to be more ' ' than coincidental. The two chants are too close to suppose that their correspondence is coincidental. As we shall see, this is not coincidental. Thus, any random line drawn across this frame would show a high degree of coincidental overlap with the cholinergic matrix. Moreover, the close juxtaposition of this notion in congress speeches to anti-commercial rhetoric was not coincidental. The symbolism implied by the placement of an extremely long melismatic passage precisely at this place can hardly have been coincidental. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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