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"