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My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom.
Angela Davis

Meaning of "accidentally" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ACCIDENTALLY

accidentally  [ˌæksɪˈdɛnt əlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ACCIDENTALLY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Accidentally is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES ACCIDENTALLY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

accidentally

Accident

An accident or a mishap is an unforeseen and unplanned event or circumstance, often with lack of intention or necessity. It usually implies a generally negative outcome which might have been avoided or prevented had circumstances leading up to the accident been recognized, and acted upon, prior to its occurrence. Injury prevention refers to activities designed to foresee and avoid accidents. Accidents of particularly common types are investigated to identify how to avoid them in the future. This is sometimes called root cause analysis, but does not generally apply to accidents that cannot be deterministically predicted. A root cause of an uncommon and purely random accident may never be identified, and thus future similar accidents remain "accidental."...

Definition of accidentally in the English dictionary

The definition of accidentally in the dictionary is by mistake; as the result of an accident. Other definition of accidentally is by chance; unintentionally.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ACCIDENTALLY


chemically
ˈkɛmɪk əlɪ
coitally
ˈkəʊɪt əlɪ
compartmentally
ˌkɒmpɑːtˈmɛnt əlɪ
congenitally
kənˈdʒɛnɪt əlɪ
consonantally
ˌkɒnsəˈnænt əlɪ
continentally
ˌkɒntɪˈnɛnt əlɪ
contrapuntally
ˌkɒntrəˈpʌnt əlɪ
covenantally
ˌkʌvəˈnænt əlɪ
departmentally
ˌdiːpɑːtˈmɛnt əlɪ
detrimentally
ˌdɛtrɪˈmɛnt əlɪ
dramatically
drəˈmætɪk əlɪ
edictally
ˈiːdɪkt əlɪ
emotionally
ɪˈməʊʃən əlɪ
exceptionally
ɪkˈsɛpʃən əlɪ
experimentally
ɪkˌspɛrɪˈmɛnt əlɪ
exponentially
ˌɛkspəˈnɛnʃ əlɪ
externally
ɪkˈstɜːn əlɪ
financially
fɪˈnænʃ əlɪ
formally
ˈfɔːm əlɪ
fragmentally
fræɡˈmɛnt əlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ACCIDENTALLY

accident and emergency
accident and emergency department
accident and emergency unit
accident blackspot
accident insurance
accident prevention
accident proneness
accident protection
accident unit
accident-prone
accidental
accidental damage
accidental death
accidental injury
accidentalism
accidentality
accidentalness
accidented
accidently
accidentology

WORDS THAT END LIKE ACCIDENTALLY

actually
anecdotally
brutally
coincidentally
dentally
developmentally
digitally
environmentally
fatally
fundamentally
horizontally
incidentally
incrementally
instrumentally
mentally
pivotally
prenatally
rectally
tally
totally
vitally

Synonyms and antonyms of accidentally in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ACCIDENTALLY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «accidentally» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of accidentally

Translation of «accidentally» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ACCIDENTALLY

Find out the translation of accidentally to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of accidentally from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «accidentally» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

偶然地
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

accidentalmente
570 millions of speakers

English

accidentally
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गलती
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بالصُدْفَة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

случайно
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

acidentalmente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ঘটনাক্রমে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

accidentellement
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Secara tidak sengaja
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

versehentlich
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

偶然に
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

우연히
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sengaja
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

một cách tình cờ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தற்செயலாக
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

चुकून
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kazara
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

accidentalmente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

przypadkowo
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

випадково
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

accidental
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τυχαία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ongeluk
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

av en händelse
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ved et uhell
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of accidentally

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ACCIDENTALLY»

The term «accidentally» is very widely used and occupies the 14.085 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ACCIDENTALLY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «accidentally» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «accidentally» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about accidentally

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10 QUOTES WITH «ACCIDENTALLY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word accidentally.
1
Dianna Agron
If I'm traveling, I'll take a film camera and a digital camera because sometimes there are moments where, if you've lost it, or if coming back and it accidentally goes through the X-ray machine and it gets overexposed, you might have had a really important moment to you and you would be really upset that you didn't have a back-up.
2
Rodney Brooks
The question is, you know, will someone accidentally build a robot that takes over from us? And that's sort of like this lone guy in the backyard, you know - 'I accidentally built a 747.' I don't think that's going to happen.
3
Orson Scott Card
I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.
4
David Carr
Keep in mind that when public figures get in trouble for something they said, it is usually not because they misspoke, but because they accidentally told the truth.
5
Angela Davis
My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom.
6
Phyllis Diller
The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.
7
Pete Docter
I remember as a kid having a balloon and accidentally letting the string go and watching it just float off and into the sky until it disappeared. And there's something about that, even, that feels very much like what life is, you know, that it's fleeting, and it's temporal.
8
Megalyn Echikunwoke
Once I accidentally left my passport in Nice, France, when I was on my way to Prague. Upon arriving in Vienna, after taking an overnight, and being asked to present my travel documents and realizing I forgot them at the hotel, they kicked me off the train and sent me back!
9
Jake Epstein
When I was 9, I auditioned for an arts school in Toronto with a few of my friends. The sole reason we auditioned was that we found out you got to miss a couple days of school to do the audition. Without actually wanting to go to arts school, I accidentally got in. My parents encouraged me to try it, and I ended falling in love with performing.
10
Katie Featherston
I've twice accidentally stolen something, and both times I went back and paid for them when I realized I had done it.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ACCIDENTALLY»

Discover the use of accidentally in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to accidentally and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Accidentally Fabulous
Amy Flowers is starting seventh grade at a new school, the exclusive Allington Academy, but in order to fit in, she has to get on the right side of the League, the clique that controls the school, and its mean leader, Fiona.
Lisa Papademetriou, 2008
2
Accidentally Fooled
Amy Flowers is upset when her friends get assigned to work at a community garden while she gets stuck teaching first graders about health with mean Fiona and annoying Preston, but she is confused when Fiona starts acting nice.
Lisa Papademetriou, 2009
3
Accidentally Overweight: Solve Your Weight Loss Puzzle
Guidelines. For. Getting. The. Most. Out. Of. Accidentally. Overweight. You need to read this whole book. Don't just go to the solutions section of each chapter because you won't understand why specific changes are being recommended.
Libby Weaver, 2011
4
Accidentally Single
Insightful, authoritative and revealing, Accidentally Single is for those who want to find 'the one', and are prepared to do what it takes to make it happen. Visit accidentallysingle.com for more about the author and the book.
John Aiken, 2010
5
Accidentally Yours
Wanted: -Single mom seeks billionaire's pocketbook to fund dying son's research cure.
Susan Mallery, 2012
6
Accidentally Catty
A purrr-fectly scintillating new novel from the national bestselling author of Accidentally Demonic.
Dakota Cassidy, 2011
7
Love, Accidentally: An eShort Story
Featuring a character from Sarah Pekkanen’s original eBook short story All Is Bright, Love, Accidentally is surprising and heartfelt.
Sarah Pekkanen, 2011
8
Accidentally Friends
Having accidentally proven herself fabulous to the Queen of Mean and her League, Allington Academy seventh-grader Amy now tries to find true friends.
Lisa Papademetriou, 2009
9
Innocent Secretary...Accidentally Pregnant
Plain and prim Emma Stephenson might not look like a tycoon's assistant, but for Luca D'Amato--a playboy who likes to play--breaking through her no-nonsense exterior is his favorite new game!
Carol Marinelli, 2010
10
Accidentally Dead
Nina always loved the nightlife.
Dakota Cassidy, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ACCIDENTALLY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term accidentally is used in the context of the following news items.
1
3-year-old accidentally shoots self in Spring
Life Flight is responding to a 3-year-old who accidentally shot himself in northwest Harris County. (Photo: Loyd Overcash for KHOU). «KHOU, Jul 15»
2
Man accidentally shoots friend with spear gun, Sarasota police say
SARASOTA — A man accidentally shot his friend in the head with a ... Ringling Causeway when Bartush's spear gun accidentally went off. «Tampabay.com, Jul 15»
3
NJ Officer Accidentally Strikes, Kills Pedestrian In Crash
Lacey Twp., NJ (CBS) — Officials are investigating an accident where a police officer accidentally struck a pedestrian in a fatal crash. «CBS Local, Jul 15»
4
Police: Man accidentally shoots girlfriend while cleaning gun
PUYALLUP, Wash. — Puyallup police say a 22-year-old woman was shot in the abdomen as her boyfriend prepared to clean his gun. «Q13 FOX, Jul 15»
5
SCSO: Young man accidentally shoots friend in head while aiming …
SPARTANBURG COUNTY, S.C. —The Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office says a young man is in the ICU after getting accidentally shot in the ... «WYFF Greenville, Jul 15»
6
Loch Broom dog accidentally went kayaking and had to be rescued
So when the Osborne family's dog Rosy leapt onto a kayak on Loch Broom in the Scottish highlands, she was left helpless as it floated out ... «Metro, Jul 15»
7
Woman at amusement park possibly accidentally shot by July 4 …
WEST MIFFLIN, Pa. -- Police say a woman was shot while inside an amusement park in suburban Pittsburgh, and they're investigating whether ... «Toronto Sun, Jul 15»
8
Did 'Game Of Thrones' ' Kit Harrington Accidentally Confirm The …
This article contains spoilers about Game of Thrones Season 6, theories about Game of Thrones Season 6, and theories and spoilers about A ... «The Inquisitr, Jul 15»
9
Immigrant Detention Center Accidentally Injects 250 Kids With Adult …
250 children residing at an immigrant detention center in Texas were accidentally given an adult-sized dose of the Hepatitis A vaccine last ... «Medical Daily, Jul 15»
10
Welder accidentally sets fire to nearby car
A welder got more than they bargained for when they accidentally set fire to a car while working near it. The accident happened in Louth this ... «Lincolnshire Echo, Jul 15»

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