Accident

Noun

 * 1) An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences.
 * 2) Any chance event.
 * 3)  Chance.
 * 4)  An unintended event such as a collision that causes damage or death.
 * 5) Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential.
 * 6)  An instance of incontinence.
 * 7)  An unintended pregnancy.
 * 8)  A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness.
 * 9)  A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case.
 * 10)  An irregular surface feature with no apparent cause.
 * 11)  A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms
 * 12)  casus; such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation.
 * 13)  An unplanned event that results in injury (including death) or occupational illness to person(s) and/or damage to property, exclusive of injury and/or damage caused by action of an enemy or hostile force.
 * 14)  Appearance, manifestation.

Adjectives for Accident
unlucky; capricious; untoward; melancholy; singular; unfortunate; comical; happy; felicitous; merest; incalculable; inescapable; preventable; frightful; pure; deplorable; subversive; divine; haphazard; perverse; monstrous; trivial; sheer; malignant; regrettable; vexing; inexplicable; minor; heart-breaking; curious; ghastly; providential; incredible; stupid; dreadful; fatal; predictable.

Verbs for Accident
answer for -; barring -; breed -s; curb -s; excuse -; fake -; incapacitate by -; subject to -; trace to -; - befalls; - forces; - happens; - occurs; - oppresses; - places.

Synonyms for Accident

 * befalling, chance, contingency, casualty, mishap
 * casus
 * happening, misfortune, misadventure, hazard, disaster, calamity.

Antonyms for Accident
plan, provision, calculation, purpose, ordinance, law, fate, decree, intention, certainty, appointment, necessity.

Derived terms
accidental; by accident; freak accident

Related terms
accidence; accidentally

Thesaurus
happenstance; hazard; ill hap; incidence; incidental; inessential; kismet; long odds; long shot; luck; lucky shot; materialization; mere chance; misadventure; mischance; misfortune; mishap; mistake; nasty blow; nonessential; not-self; other; pileup; realization; secondary; serendipity; shipwreck; shock; smash; smashup; staggering blow; subsidiary; superaddition; supplement; tragedy; unessential; wreck, accessary; accessory; accidental; addendum; addition; adjunct; adventure; appendage; appurtenance; auxiliary; blow; blunder; calamity; casualty; cataclysm; catastrophe; chance; chance hit; collateral; collision; coming to be; contingency; contingent; contretemps; crack-up; crash; destiny; disaster; event; eventuality; eventuation; extra; fate; fluke; fortuity; fortune; freak accident; grief; hap; happening.

Etymology
From, from accident:, from  accidens:, present active participle of accido:; from ad: + cado:. See cadence:, case:.

Pronunciation

 * , {{SAMPA|/"{k.s@.d@nt/}}

Translations

 * Amharic: አደጋ (adega)
 * Arabic: حادث
 * Basque: istripu, ezbehar
 * Bulgarian: злополука,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: (unfortunate:), , ulykkestilfælde, (neutral:) tilfælde, tilfældighed
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * German:


 * Greek: (atýchima)
 * Greenlandic:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: incidente
 * Japanese: (, jiko),  (akushidento)
 * Norwegian: ulykke, uheld, ulykkestilfelle
 * Polish:
 * Russian: несчастный случай, technical,,  ч.п.
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Catalan:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Russian: несчастный случай, technical
 * Swahili:


 * Catalan:


 * Danish: egenskab


 * Russian:, случайность


 * Swahili:


 * Swahili:


 * American Sign Language:
 * Basque: istripu
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Basque: istripu
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:


 * Czech:
 * French:
 * Indonesian: kecelakaan
 * Italian: incidente
 * Polish: wypadek
 * Russian:, столкновение
 * Spanish: accidente
 * Swahili:
 * Turkish: kaza

Etymology
From undefined:, stem of accidens:, present active participle of accido:.

Noun

 * 1) accident a chance occurrence
 * 2)  accident
 * 3)  accidental
 * 4)  accident
 * 5)  accident

Noun

 * 1) accident

Etymology 1
Form of the verb accido:.

Etymology 2
Form of the verb accido:.