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Meaning of 'adventitious' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Adventitious [ a.]
- Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign.
- Out of the proper or usual place; as, adventitious buds or roots.
- Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied to foreign plants.
- Acquired, as diseases; accidental.

Meaning of 'adventitious' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . adventitious [ s]
Meaning (1):
- associated by chance and not an integral part
Example in sentence:
  • poetry is something to which words are the accidental, not by any means the essential form;
  • they had to decide whether his misconduct was adventitious or the result of a flaw in his character

Nearby Words:

advance advanced advancement advancer advancing advancive advantage advantageable advantaged advantageous

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