Incident

//ˈɪn.sɪ.dənt//

Synonyms for "incident" (107 found)

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Closest matches (22)

Noun(2 words)
affairbefalling

Strong matches (32)

Noun(2 words)
episodeevent

Related words (53)

Adjective(1 words)
incidental

Related word relations

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8 relation types

More general

13 entries

Synonyms

1 entries

derived

16 entries

has context

2 entries

is a

3 entries

part of

1 entries

related to

24 entries

Showing 16 of 24 words.

similar

5 entries

Translations

228 translations across 57 languages.

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Arabic

3 entries
  • حَادِث noun (event or occurrence)
  • حَادِثَة noun (event or occurrence)
  • وَاقِعَة noun (event or occurrence)

Armenian

3 entries
  • դեպք noun (event or occurrence)
  • դիպված noun (event or occurrence)
  • պատահար noun (event or occurrence)

Azerbaijani

4 entries
  • hadisə noun (event or occurrence)
  • hadisə noun (event causing interruption or crisis)
  • macəra noun (event or occurrence)
  • olay noun (event or occurrence)

Bashkir

4 entries
  • ваҡиға noun (event or occurrence)
  • осраҡ noun (event or occurrence)
  • осраҡлы хәл noun ((minor) event incidental to others)
  • хәл noun (event or occurrence)

Basque

1 entries
  • gertaera noun (event or occurrence)

Belarusian

4 entries
  • вы́падак noun (event or occurrence)
  • здарэ́нне noun (event or occurrence)
  • здарэ́нне noun (event causing interruption or crisis)
  • інцыдэ́нт noun (event or occurrence)

Bengali

4 entries
  • অকু noun (event or occurrence)
  • অকু noun (event causing interruption or crisis)
  • অকুআত noun (event or occurrence)
  • অকুআত noun (event causing interruption or crisis)

Bulgarian

4 entries
  • инцидентен adj (happening accidentally; casual)
  • падащ adj (physics: falling on a surface)
  • произтичащ adj (arising as the result of an event)
  • случаен adj (happening accidentally; casual)

Chinese Mandarin

3 entries
  • 事件 noun (event or occurrence)
  • 事件 noun ((minor) event incidental to others)
  • 事件 noun (event causing interruption or crisis)

Czech

4 entries
  • incident noun (event or occurrence)
  • incident noun (event causing interruption or crisis)
  • příhoda noun (event or occurrence)
  • událost noun (event or occurrence)

Danish

1 entries
  • begivenhed noun (event or occurrence)

Dutch

4 entries
  • inherent adj (arising as the result of an event)
  • inslaand adj (physics: falling on a surface)
  • episode noun (event or occurrence)
  • episode noun ((minor) event incidental to others)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • okazo noun (event or occurrence)

Estonian

1 entries
  • vahejuhtum noun (event or occurrence)

Finnish

4 entries
  • asiaankuuluva adj (liable to happen; naturally happening or appertaining)
  • asianmukainen adj (liable to happen; naturally happening or appertaining)
  • johtuva adj (arising as the result of an event)
  • kuuluva adj (liable to happen; naturally happening or appertaining)

French

1 entries
  • incident noun (event or occurrence)

Georgian

4 entries
  • ინციდენტი noun (event or occurrence)
  • ინციდენტი noun (event causing interruption or crisis)
  • შემთხვევა noun (event or occurrence)
  • შემთხვევა noun (event causing interruption or crisis)

German

4 entries
  • anhaftend adj (arising as the result of an event)
  • auftreffend adj (physics: falling on a surface)
  • dazugehörend adj (arising as the result of an event)
  • einfallend adj (physics: falling on a surface)

Greek

4 entries
  • προσπίπτουσα adj (physics: falling on a surface)
  • προσπίπτων adj (physics: falling on a surface)
  • συναφής adj (arising as the result of an event)
  • επεισόδιο noun (event or occurrence)

Hebrew

2 entries
  • תַּקְרִית noun (event or occurrence)
  • תַּקְרִית noun (event causing interruption or crisis)

Hindi

2 entries
  • घटना noun (event or occurrence)
  • दुर्घटना noun (event causing interruption or crisis)

Hungarian

1 entries
  • incidens noun (event causing interruption or crisis)

Icelandic

1 entries
  • atburður noun (event or occurrence)

Indonesian

3 entries
  • insiden noun (event or occurrence)
  • kejadian noun (event or occurrence)
  • peristiwa noun (event or occurrence)

Irish

3 entries
  • ionsaitheach adj (physics: falling on a surface)
  • eachtra noun (event or occurrence)
  • eachtra noun (event causing interruption or crisis)

Italian

4 entries
  • accaduto noun (event or occurrence)
  • anomalia noun (event causing interruption or crisis)
  • imprevisto noun (event causing interruption or crisis)
  • incidente noun (event causing interruption or crisis)

Japanese

3 entries
  • 事変 noun (event causing interruption or crisis)
  • 事故 noun (event or occurrence)
  • 事故 noun (event causing interruption or crisis)

Kazakh

1 entries
  • оқиға noun (event or occurrence)

Khmer

2 entries
  • ឧប្បត្តិហេតុ noun (event or occurrence)
  • ឧប្បត្តិហេតុ noun (event causing interruption or crisis)

Korean

2 entries
  • 사건 noun (event or occurrence)
  • 사건 noun (event causing interruption or crisis)

Kyrgyz

1 entries
  • окуя noun (event or occurrence)

Lao

1 entries
  • ອຸປະຕິເຫດ noun (event causing interruption or crisis)

Lower Sorbian

1 entries
  • tšojenje noun (event or occurrence)

Macedonian

4 entries
  • епизо́да noun ((minor) event incidental to others)
  • инциде́нт noun (event or occurrence)
  • инциде́нт noun (event causing interruption or crisis)
  • не́згода noun (event causing interruption or crisis)

Mongolian

1 entries
  • явдал noun (event or occurrence)

Norwegian Bokmål

2 entries
  • episode noun (event or occurrence)
  • hendelse noun (event or occurrence)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries
  • episode noun (event or occurrence)

Persian

3 entries
  • حادثه noun (event or occurrence)
  • حادثه noun (event causing interruption or crisis)
  • واقعه noun (event or occurrence)

Polish

4 entries
  • padający adj (physics: falling on a surface)
  • towarzyszący adj (arising as the result of an event)
  • wynikający adj (arising as the result of an event)
  • incydent noun (event or occurrence)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • incidente noun (event or occurrence)

Punjabi

2 entries
  • ਘਟਨਾ noun (event or occurrence)
  • ਵਕੂਆ noun (event or occurrence)

Romanian

4 entries
  • incident adj (physics: falling on a surface)
  • incidental adj (arising as the result of an event)
  • caz noun (event or occurrence)
  • deranjament noun (event causing interruption or crisis)

Russian

4 entries
  • падающий adj (physics: falling on a surface)
  • свойственный adj (arising as the result of an event)
  • инциде́нт noun (event or occurrence)
  • инциде́нт noun (event causing interruption or crisis)

Sanskrit

1 entries
  • घटना noun (event or occurrence)

Scottish Gaelic

2 entries
  • tuiteamas noun (event or occurrence)
  • tuiteamas noun ((minor) event incidental to others)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries
  • incìdent noun (event or occurrence)
  • incìdent noun (event causing interruption or crisis)
  • nèzgoda noun (event causing interruption or crisis)
  • slȕčāj noun (event or occurrence)

Slovak

4 entries
  • dopadajúci adj (physics: falling on a surface)
  • incident noun (event or occurrence)
  • incident noun (event causing interruption or crisis)
  • prípad noun (event or occurrence)

Slovene

2 entries
  • incident noun (event causing interruption or crisis)
  • nezgoda noun (event causing interruption or crisis)

Spanish

2 entries
  • incidente noun (event or occurrence)
  • insuceso noun (event causing interruption or crisis)

Swedish

4 entries
  • händelse noun (event or occurrence)
  • incident noun (event causing interruption or crisis)
  • olyckshändelse noun (event causing interruption or crisis)
  • tillbud noun (event causing interruption or crisis)

Tajik

4 entries
  • воқеа noun (event or occurrence)
  • моҷаро noun (event or occurrence)
  • ҳодиса noun (event or occurrence)
  • ҳодиса noun (event causing interruption or crisis)

Thai

3 entries
  • กรณี noun (event or occurrence)
  • อุบัติการณ์ noun (event or occurrence)
  • อุบัติเหตุ noun (event causing interruption or crisis)

Turkish

4 entries
  • hadise noun (event or occurrence)
  • hadise noun (event causing interruption or crisis)
  • kaza noun (event causing interruption or crisis)
  • olay noun (event or occurrence)

Ukrainian

4 entries
  • власти́вий adj (arising as the result of an event)
  • па́даючий adj (physics: falling on a surface)
  • ви́падок noun (event or occurrence)
  • інциде́нт noun (event or occurrence)

Uyghur

1 entries
  • ۋەقە noun (event or occurrence)

Uzbek

4 entries
  • hodisa noun (event or occurrence)
  • hodisa noun (event causing interruption or crisis)
  • mojaro noun (event or occurrence)
  • voqea noun (event or occurrence)

Vietnamese

1 entries
  • sự kiện noun (event or occurrence)

Sample sentences

23 total sentences available.

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This was third school shooting incident in six months.

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We mustn't make too much of this incident.

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There was an unfortunate incident at home.

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I must pull myself together to overcome this incident.

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