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adventitious

英 [,ædv(ə)n'tɪʃəs] 美[,ædvɛn'tɪʃəs]
  • adj. 外来的,偶然的

英英释意


1. associated by chance and not an integral part;
"poetry is something to which words are the accidental, not by any means the essential form"- Frederick W. Robertson
"they had to decide whether his misconduct was adventitious or the result of a flaw in his character"