adventitious

adventitious

adjective

Definition of ADVENTITIOUS

not being a vital part of or belonging to something <the point of view that art should be for art's sake and that moral considerations are adventitious to the study of art>

Synonyms accidental, adventitious, alien, extraneous, external, foreign, supervenient

Related Words exterior, outside; immaterial, inapplicable, insignificant, irrelevant; nonessential, unessential, unnecessary

Near Antonyms congenital, deep-seated, inborn, inbred; inside, interior, internal; basic, essential, necessary

Antonyms inherent, innate, intrinsic