Adjective incidental has 3 senses
- incidental, incident - (sometimes followed by `to') minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence; "incidental expenses"; "the road will bring other incidental advantages"; "extra duties incidental to the job"; "labor problems incidental to a rapid expansion"; "confusion incidental to a quick change"
Antonyms: basic, basal, base, elementary, primary, fundamental, rudimentary, underlying, grassroots, radical
- accompanying, attendant, concomitant, incidental, incidental to - following as a consequence; "an excessive growth of bureaucracy, with related problems"; "snags incidental to the changeover in management"
Antonym: unrelated (indirect, via related)
- incidental, nonessential - not of prime or central importance; "nonessential to the integral meanings of poetry"- Pubs.MLA
Antonym: essential (indirect, via inessential)
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Noun incidental has 2 senses
- incidental expense, incidental, minor expense - (frequently plural) an expense not budgeted or not specified; "he requested reimbursement of $7 for incidental expenses"
--1 is a kind of expense
- incidental - an item that is incidental
--2 is a kind of item, point
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