Accidently
adv
adv ·4 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adverb
- 1 Accidentally; by chance, unintentionally. nonstandard
"[T]he exceptions remind me of an ingenious conjecture respecting Newton: that he was probably a being of a superior order, accidently caged in a human body."
Example
More examples"[T]he exceptions remind me of an ingenious conjecture respecting Newton: that he was probably a being of a superior order, accidently caged in a human body."
Etymology
From Middle English accidently, accidentli (“by chance; temporarily; artificially”), equivalent to accident + -ly.
More for "accidently"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.