incidentally
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
incidental + -ly
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɪnsɪˈdɛntl̩i/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌɪnsəˈdɛn(t)l̩i/
Adverb[edit]
incidentally (comparative more incidentally, superlative most incidentally)
- (manner) In an incidental manner; not of central or critical importance.
- The book discussed the subject, but only incidentally.
- 1951 April, D. S. Barrie, “British Railways: A Survey, 1948-1950”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 225:
- Not everybody welcomes standardisation as a principle, because it reduces variety (and, incidentally, tends to dispose of the quainter and more picturesque anomalies).
- By chance; in an unplanned way.
- (speech act, conjunctive) Parenthetically, by the way.
- Incidentally, did you hear anything new from your brother yesterday?
Synonyms[edit]
- (parenthetically): apropos, as a matter of fact, by the way
Antonyms[edit]
- (antonym(s) of “in an incidental manner”): inevitably, certainly
Translations[edit]
in an incidental manner
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without looking for something/somebody
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by the way — see also by the way
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