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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
coincidental
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
purely
▪ Furthermore, the public is told that ail similarities to dolphins are purely coincidental.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Fourteen months later, a judge said the case against Harris was too coincidental.
▪ Furthermore, the public is told that ail similarities to dolphins are purely coincidental.
▪ His fierce pride demanded that she must assume their meeting had been coincidental.
▪ I had come to believe that on the world stage little occurred that was strictly coincidental.
▪ Such a concentration of comparable geometrical forms can not be coincidental.
▪ The link, however, could have been merely coincidental, he noted.
▪ These are then excreted and, should they prove to have a useful, coincidental effect, the bacteria thrive.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coincidental

Coincidental \Co*in`ci*den"tal\, a. Coincident.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
coincidental

c.1800, from coincident + -al (1).

Wiktionary
coincidental

a. 1 occur as or resulting from coincidence. 2 Happening or existing at the same time.

WordNet
coincidental

adj. occurring or operating at the same time; "a series of coincident events" [syn: coincident, coinciding, concurrent, cooccurring, simultaneous]

Usage examples of "coincidental".

But it does seem highly coincidental that he would use that turn of phrase, given the awkwardness of other parts of his message.

Could it be that it is not particularly coincidental for two such men as we to see profit in the same thing?

This boy, born in Moss Side in 1916, was to be -- by a twist if not genetic then purely coincidental, since family interest in Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli was born and apparently died with the founder of the family -- the translator into English of the great Roman poet.

The fact Marrakech was a Berber city and he was the only person in the section to speak rudimentary Chleuh, the side effect of a not-so-long-gone summer spent hiking in the High Atlas, was purely coincidental.

Is it more than coincidental that Stepford has become an enclave of computer experts, microcircuitry designers, systems engineers, optical sensor developers .

Any resemblance of such nonhistorical incidents, places, or figures to actual events or locales or persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.

Any resemblance of such nonhistorical incidents, places, or figures to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Any resemblance of such nonhistorical persons or events to actual ones is purely coincidental.

The imputation that she had once invited him to tea was utterly without foundation and the fact that Miss Goldring lived in West Pursley while the plaintiff occupied a house in East was purely coincidental.

Agent Keating, we may have played spies on TV, but any resemblance between us and Remington Steele is purely coincidental.

Esias de Tenebre, Magnate and Registered Member of the Electorate of the Republic of Nova Babylonia, exhaled the smoke from his joint and gave a modest and not entirely coincidental cough as he passed the rather insalubrious object to the lady at his left.

It's a robe ' Pink chiffon polyester, probably, not even her mother would be silly-enough to send a garment that would have to be dry-cleaned every time it was worntrimmed with satin rosebuds, it bore a striking and certainly coincidental resemblance to the Callot Soeurs peignoir.

That resemblance was not coincidental, for Weepenwilly was one of the Dozen Diapered Darlings.

He wouldn't do that without a good reason, and it would be coincidental, to say the least, if he just happened to step out at the precise time Benton let him know he would call the number in mode two.

Oh, they claimed they were selling cadavers, but the numbers were too high and the age groups too coincidental.