coincidental
/kəʊɪnsɪˈdɛnt(ə)l
/adjective
1Resulting from a coincidence; happening by chance: any resemblance between their reports is purely coincidental...
- It was coincidental that they happened to share the same Dublin street address.
- Last night Timothy Lipscomb, vicar of Armley, said it seemed coincidental that the fire had happened so soon after the terror attacks.
- IT may be coincidental that fat and fatal lie side by side in the dictionary but judging by UK obesity statistics their position seems pertinent.
Synonyms
accidental, chance, occurring by chance/accident, fortuitous, adventitious, fluky, casual, serendipitous, random, aleatory;
unexpected, unforeseen, unanticipated, unforeseeable, unlooked-for;
unintentional, unintended, inadvertent, involuntary, unplanned, unpremeditated, unthinking, unmeant
2Happening or existing at the same time: it’s convenient that his plan is coincidental with the group’s closure...
- Some of us associate astrology with star signs that talk of things which merely are coincidental with issues happening in our lives.
- Is moving from head to heart coincidental with moving from stage to film, which is about moving from words to gestures?
- But it seems to us that some of the wishes are strangely coincidental with Microsoft's own wishes.
Synonyms
simultaneous, concurrent, coincident, contemporaneous, concomitant, synchronous, coexistent;
at the same time (as)