What is the meaning of adventitious?

adjective

  • Associated by chance and not an integral part.
    • usage: "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"
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