coincidental

Word family

co·in·ci·den·tal /kəʊˌɪnsəˈdentl $ koʊ-/ AWL adjectiveadj

CHANCE/BY CHANCEhappening completely by chance without being planned 巧合的，碰巧的 → coincidence

purely/completely/entirely coincidental

Any similarity between this film and real events is purely coincidental.

本片如与真实事件有任何雷同纯属巧合。

—coincidentally adverbadv [sentence adverbadv]

We have become profitable. Not coincidentally, we have only half as many employees as we did in 1988.

我们开始赢利了。并非巧合的是，我们的员工人数只有1988年时的一半。

Examples from the Corpus

coincidental• Fourteen months later, a judge said the case against Harris was too coincidental.• Furthermore, the public is told that ail similarities to dolphins are purely coincidental.• His fierce pride demanded that she must assume their meeting had been coincidental.• I had come to believe that on the world stage little occurred that was strictly coincidental.• Such a concentration of comparable geometrical forms can not be coincidental.• These are then excreted and, should they prove to have a useful, coincidental effect, the bacteria thrive.• The link, however, could have been merely coincidental, he noted.

purely/completely/entirely coincidental• Furthermore, the public is told that ail similarities to dolphins are purely coincidental.

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Corpus

BNC: 19109 COCA: 18156

coincidental

adjective

VERBS | ADVERB

VERBS

➤be碰巧

ADVERB

➤completely, entirely, merely, purely完全巧合；僅僅巧合；純粹巧合

◇These parallels cannot be merely coincidental.這些相似之處不可能只是巧合。

➤hardly很難說是巧合

◇The timing is hardly coincidental.選擇這個時間很難說是巧合。

BNC: 19109 COCA: 18156

coincidental

Not planned: random, arbitrary, spontaneous...