- accident
- n1. misfortune, mishap, misadventure, miscarriage, mischance, casualty; adversity, affliction, hurt, ruin, undoing, downfall, collapse; blow, nasty or staggering blow; disaster, tragedy, catastrophe, calamity, cataclysm; wreck, crash, collision, smash-up, crack-up, pile-up.2. mistake, blunder, contretemps, Inf. slip-up, Sl. boo-boo, Sl. boner, oversight; leak; mischief.3. fluke, freak accident, one in a million, twist of fate; shock; fortuity, happening, hap, hazard.4. chance, mere chance, fortune, good fortune, luck, good luck, Lady Luck, happenstance, serendipity; fate; uncertainty, contingency; blind faith.5. nonessential, inessential, unessential; incidental, accidental, contingent; extra, accessory, supplement, auxiliary; appendage, appurtenance, addition, addendum; secondary, subsidiary.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.