accident
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin accidō
Latin accidēnslbor.
Old French accidentbor.
Middle English accident
English accident
First attested in the late 14th century. From Middle English accident, from Old French accident, from Latin accidēns, present active participle of accidō (“happen”); from ad (“to”) + cadō (“fall”). See cadence, case. In the sense “unintended pregnancy”, first attested in 1932.
Inflected forms:
form: accidents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences, and (in the strict sense) not directly caused by humans.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: to die by an accident such as an act of God
Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, / Of moving accidents by flood and field[…]
gloss: An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences, and (in the strict sense) not directly caused by humans.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A collision or crash of a vehicle, aircraft, or other form of transportation that causes damage to the transportation involved; and sometimes injury or death to the transportation's occupants or bystanders in close proximity. (but see Usage notes)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There was a huge accident on I5 involving 15 automobiles.
My insurance went up after the second accident in three months.
Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident. Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.
gloss: Any chance event.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He also objects to the idea of women arising by an accident of nature, preferring the notion that they came about as a 'result of some strong mental impression', and so 'the sex of the progeny would have been settled by the decision of the progenitor'.
gloss: Chance; random chance.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: c.1861-1863, Richard Chevenix Trench, in 1888, Letters and memorials, Volume 1,
Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident, / It is the very place God meant for thee; […]
And so with his writing, which he proudly said was a perfect counterpart of his life. Accident played a major part in both.
gloss: Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential or nonsubstantive.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Beauty is an accident.
Lexical gaps are called accidental because their existence is by accident; it is not essential.
This accident, as I call it, of Athens being situated some miles from the sea, which is rather the consequence of its being a very ancient site,[…]
If they went through their growth-crisis in other faiths and other countries, although the essence of the change would be the same[…], its accidents would be different.
14thC, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale in The Canterbury Tales,
These cookes how they stamp, and strain, and grind, / And turne substance into accident, / To fulfill all thy likerous talent!
But as to Man, all the Fruits of the Earth, all sorts of Herbs, Plants and Roots, the Fishes of the Sea, and the Birds of the Air do not suffice him, but he must disguise, vary, and sophisticate, change the substance into accident, that by such irritations as these, Nature might be provoked, and as it were necessitated.
Nonetheless, those who have no evidence of the impossibility of the transformation of accident into substance believe that it is death itself which will be actually transformed into a ram on the Day of Resurrection and then be slaughtered.
It would also follow that God ought to be able to transmute genera, converting substance into accident, knowledge into ability, black into white, and sound into smell, just as he can turn the inanimate into animate[…]
nor can God effect the transmutation of substances (from accident into substance, or substance into accident, or substance without accident).
gloss: Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential or nonsubstantive.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: An adjective, so called because adjectitious, or added to a substantive, denotes some quality or accident of the substantive to which it is joined […]
gloss: An instance of incontinence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
euphemistic
uncountable
examples: We weren’t there long when Karin asked about our dog. When we told her Chris was in the car, she insisted we bring him up to the apartment. I rejected her offer and said he might have an accident on the carpet and I didn’t want to worry about it.
gloss: An instance of incontinence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
euphemistic
uncountable
gloss: An unintended pregnancy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
euphemistic
uncountable
gloss: An unintended pregnancy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
derogatory
euphemistic
humorous
uncountable
examples: Taylor was our sweet little accident, and we're so glad!
gloss: An injury.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Accident is a word which too commonly suffers a like perversion. It is used as if it meant a wound.
This little manual contains simple directions for the preliminary treatment of accidents to all parts of the body and of such diseases as persons are suddenly seized with.
The grave accidents provoked by iodine usually assume the form of œdema of the glottis.
gloss: An irregular surface feature with no apparent cause.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A sudden discontinuity of ground such as fault of great thickness, bed or lentil of unstable ground.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Synonym of accidental.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Designating any form of transportation involved in an accident.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The NTSB report revealed that the accident airplane was a Cessna 172.
Synonyms: mishap
befalling
chance
contingency
casualty
luck
casus
accident
fortuity
Antonyms: intention
inevitability
impossibility
Related words: circumstance
coincidence
happenstance
accidental
accidentally
Derived words: accidental
accidentality
accidentally
accident and emergency
accidentary
accident blackspot
accident insurance
accidently
accident neurosis
accident of birth
accidentologist
accidentology
accident-prone
accident rate
accident waiting to happen
by accident
cerebrovascular accident
criticality accident
freak accident
have an accident
industrial accident
it is no accident
malaccident
motor accident
nonaccident
on accident
POLAC
polac
postaccident
road accident
snaccident
textident
vaccident
vaxident
vaxxident
without accident
Translations:
lang: Afar
word: qawwalayla
lang: Albanian
word: aksident
lang: Amharic
word: አደጋ
roman: ʾädäga
lang: Arabic
word: حَادِث
roman: ḥādiṯ
lang: Arabic
word: حَادِثَة
roman: ḥādiṯa
lang: Arabic
word: حَادْثَة
roman: ḥādsa
lang: Arabic
word: حَادِث
roman: ḥādiṯ, ḥādis
lang: Arabic
word: حَادِث
roman: ḥādeṯ, ḥādes
lang: Armenian
word: դժբախտ պատահար
roman: džbaxt patahar
lang: Azerbaijani
word: qəza
lang: Azerbaijani
word: avariya
lang: Azerbaijani
word: bədbəxt hadisə
lang: Basque
word: istripu
lang: Basque
word: ezbehar
lang: Belarusian
word: вы́падак
roman: výpadak
lang: Belarusian
word: ава́рыя
roman: aváryja
lang: Belarusian
word: катастро́фа
roman: katastrófa
lang: Belarusian
word: няшча́сны вы́падак
roman: njaščásny výpadak
lang: Bengali
word: দূর্ঘটনা
roman: durghoṭona
lang: Bhojpuri
word: दुरघटना
roman: durᵊghaṭᵊnā
lang: Bulgarian
word: злополу́ка
roman: zlopolúka
lang: Bulgarian
word: катастро́фа
roman: katastrófa
lang: Bulgarian
word: ава́рия
roman: avárija
lang: Burmese
word: မတော်တဆမှု
roman: ma.tauta.hca.hmu.
lang: Catalan
word: accident
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 事故
roman: shìgù
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 意外
roman: yìwài
lang: Czech
word: nehoda
lang: Danish
word: uheld
lang: Danish
word: ulykke
lang: Danish
word: ulykkestilfælde
lang: Danish
word: tilfælde
lang: Danish
word: tilfældighed
lang: Dutch
word: ongeluk
lang: Dutch
word: ongeval
lang: Esperanto
word: akcidento
lang: Estonian
word: õnnetus
lang: Faroese
word: vanlukka
lang: Faroese
word: óhapp
lang: Finnish
word: onnettomuus
lang: Finnish
word: sattuma
lang: Finnish
word: tapaturma
lang: Finnish
word: turma
lang: French
word: accident
lang: Galician
word: accidente
lang: Georgian
word: უბედური შემთხვევა
roman: ubeduri šemtxveva
lang: German
word: Unfall
lang: Greek
word: ατύχημα
roman: atýchima
lang: Ancient Greek
word: συμφορά
roman: sumphorá
lang: Ancient Greek
word: πταῖσμα
roman: ptaîsma
lang: Greenlandic
word: ajunaarneq
lang: Hebrew
word: תְּאוּנָה
roman: te'uná
lang: Hindi
word: दुर्घटना
roman: durghaṭnā
lang: Hindi
word: हादसा
roman: hādsā
lang: Hungarian
word: baleset
lang: Icelandic
word: slys
lang: Icelandic
word: óhapp
lang: Indonesian
word: kecelakaan
lang: Ingrian
word: vahinko
lang: Ingrian
word: sormus
lang: Irish
word: timpiste
lang: Irish
word: taisme
lang: Italian
word: incidente
lang: Italian
word: accidente
lang: Japanese
word: 事故
roman: jiko
lang: Japanese
word: アクシデント
roman: akushidento
lang: Kabyle
word: amxix
lang: Kazakh
word: авария
roman: avariä
lang: Kazakh
word: апат
roman: apat
lang: Khmer
word: គ្រោះ
roman: krŭəh
lang: Khmer
word: ចៃដន្យ
roman: caydɑn
lang: Korean
word: 사고
roman: sago
lang: Kyrgyz
word: авария
roman: avariya
lang: Kyrgyz
word: кырсык
roman: kırsık
lang: Lao
word: ອຸປະຕິເຫດ
roman: ʼu pa ti hēt
lang: Latin
word: calamitas
lang: Latvian
word: gadījums
lang: Lithuanian
word: įvykis
lang: Low German
word: Unfall
lang: Macedonian
word: несреќа
roman: nesreḱa
lang: Macedonian
word: незгода
roman: nezgoda
lang: Malay
word: kemalangan
lang: Malayalam
word: അപകടം
roman: apakaṭaṁ
lang: Māori
word: aituā
lang: Māori
word: hauata
lang: Marathi
word: अपघात
roman: apghāt
lang: Mongolian
word: осол
roman: osol
lang: Mongolian
word: аваар
roman: avaar
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: ulykke
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: uhell
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: ulykkestilfelle
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: ulukke
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: ulykke
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: uhell
lang: Old English
word: ġelimp
lang: Oromo
word: balaa
lang: Pashto
word: پېښه
roman: pex̌a
lang: Pashto
word: حادثه
roman: hādesa
lang: Dari
word: تَصَادُف
roman: tasāduf
lang: Dari
word: حَادِثَه
roman: hādisa
lang: Dari
word: سَانِحَه
roman: sāniha
lang: Iranian Persian
word: تَصادُف
roman: tasâdof
lang: Iranian Persian
word: حادِثِه
roman: hâdese
lang: Iranian Persian
word: سانِحِه
roman: sânehe
lang: Polish
word: wypadek
lang: Portuguese
word: acidente
lang: Romanian
word: accident
lang: Romansh
word: accident
lang: Russian
word: несча́стный слу́чай
roman: nesčástnyj slúčaj
lang: Russian
word: ава́рия f technical
roman: avárija
lang: Russian
word: катастро́фа
roman: katastrófa
lang: Russian
word: ч. п.
roman: č. p.
lang: Russian
word: ДТП
roman: DTP
lang: Russian
word: несча́стье
roman: nesčástʹje
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: tubaist
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: tuiteamas
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: нѐсрећа
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: нѐзгода
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: nèsreća
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: nèzgoda
lang: Sinhalese
word: අනතුර
roman: anatura
lang: Slovak
word: nehoda
lang: Slovene
word: nesreča
lang: Spanish
word: accidente
lang: Swahili
word: ajali
lang: Swedish
word: olycka
lang: Tagalog
word: aksidente
lang: Tagalog
word: disgrasya
lang: Tagalog
word: sakuna
lang: Tajik
word: авария
roman: avariya
lang: Tajik
word: фалокат
roman: falokat
lang: Tajik
word: тасодуф
roman: tasoduf
lang: Tajik
word: садама
roman: sadama
lang: Tajik
word: сониҳа
roman: soniha
lang: Tajik
word: ҳодиса
roman: hodisa
lang: Tatar
word: каза
roman: qaza
lang: Thai
word: อุบัติเหตุ
roman: ù-bàt-dtì-hèet
lang: Tigrinya
word: ሓደጋ
roman: ḥadäga
lang: Tigrinya
word: ሃንደበት
roman: handäbät
lang: Turkish
word: kaza
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: قضا
roman: kaza
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: عارضه
roman: ʼarıza
lang: Turkmen
word: awariýa
lang: Turkmen
word: betbagtlyk
lang: Ukrainian
word: ви́падок
roman: výpadok
lang: Ukrainian
word: ава́рія
roman: avárija
lang: Ukrainian
word: катастро́фа
roman: katastrófa
lang: Ukrainian
word: ава́рія
roman: avárija
lang: Ukrainian
word: неща́сний ви́падок
roman: neščásnyj výpadok
lang: Urdu
word: حادِثَہ
roman: hādisa
lang: Urdu
word: ناگَہانی
roman: nāgahānī
lang: Uyghur
word: ئاۋارىيە
roman: awariye
lang: Uyghur
word: ھادىسە
roman: hadise
lang: Uzbek
word: avariya
lang: Uzbek
word: falokat
lang: Uzbek
word: balo
lang: Uzbek
word: tasodif
lang: Uzbek
word: baxtsizlik
lang: Vietnamese
word: sự cố
lang: Vietnamese
word: tai nạn
lang: Walloon
word: accidint
lang: Walloon
word: kénte
lang: Yiddish
word: אַקצידענט
roman: aktsident
lang: Zazaki
word: ağm
lang: Zulu
word: ingozi
lang: Czech
word: případek
lang: Czech
word: akcident
lang: Danish
word: egenskab
lang: Finnish
word: sattuma
lang: Finnish
word: vahinko
lang: Russian
word: слу́чай
roman: slúčaj
lang: Russian
word: случа́йность
roman: slučájnostʹ
lang: Finnish
word: vahinko
lang: German
word: Malheur
lang: Finnish
word: vahinko
lang: German
word: Unfall
lang: Arabic
word: عَرَض
roman: ʕaraḍ
lang: Finnish
word: ilmenemismuoto
lang: Finnish
word: ilmiasu
lang: Persian
word: عرض
roman: 'araz