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Webster 1828 Edition

Incidentally

INCIDENT'ALLY

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adv.

Casually; without intention; accidentally. I was incidentally present when the conversation took place.

1.

Beside the main design; occasionally.

I treat either purposely or incidentally of colors.

Definition 2024

incidentally

incidentally

English

Adverb

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.
By chance; in an unplanned way.
(speech act, conjunctive) Parenthetically, by the way.
Incidentally, did you hear anything new from your brother yesterday?

Synonyms

(parenthetically): apropos, as a matter of fact, by the way

Antonyms

(in an incidental manner): inevitably, certainly

Translations

In an incidental manner

Albanian: kalimthi (sq)
Arabic: عَلى فِكْرَة
Armenian: ի միջի այլոց ‎(i miǰi aylocʿ)
French: incidemment (fr)
German: nebenbei (de)
Italian: incidentalmente (it)
Japanese: たまたま (ja) ‎(tamatama), 偶然 (ja) ‎(gūzen)

Portuguese: incidentalmente
Romanian: apropo (ro)
Russian: кста́ти (ru) ‎(kstáti)
Scottish Gaelic: eadar dà sgeul
Spanish: por cierto (es), a propósito (es)
Swedish: apropå (sv), i förbigående (sv)
Turkish: sırası gelmişken (tr), bu arada (tr), bir ara (tr), lâf arasında

Without looking for sth/sb

Albanian: kalimthi (sq)
Dutch: toevalligerwijze

German: zufällig (de), zufälligerweise (de)
Portuguese: acidentalmente (pt)

by the way

German: apropos (de), übrigens (de), im Übrigen (de), nebenbei gesagt

Irish: dála an scéil
Spanish: a propósito (es)