circumstantial
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /səːkəmˈstanʃəl/
circumstantial
- Pertaining to or dependent on circumstances, especially as opposed to essentials; incidental, not essential.
- Abounding with minor circumstances; in great detail; particular.
- 1806, James Wilkinson, Letter to Thomas Jefferson (October 21, 1806) (part of Burr conspiracy)
- For although my information appears too direct and circumstantial to be fictitious, yet the magnitude of the enterprise, the desperation of the plan, and the stupendous consequences with which it seems pregnant, stagger my belief […]
- 2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin 2009, p. 326:
- Second-hand but clearly from the best possible source - the King himself - [the story] is highly circumstantial, taking twenty-two pages of text.
- 1806, James Wilkinson, Letter to Thomas Jefferson (October 21, 1806) (part of Burr conspiracy)
- Full of circumstance or pomp; ceremonial.
- (legal) Suggesting guilt, but not proving it conclusively.
- It is unlikely he will be convicted; the evidence against him is circumstantial at best.
- (pertaining to or dependent on circumstances) See also Thesaurus:circumstantial
- Spanish: circunstancial
- Russian: дета́льный
- Spanish: minucioso
- Spanish: pomposo
- Spanish: indiciario
circumstantial (plural circumstantials)
- (chiefly, in the plural) Something incidental to the main subject, but of less importance.
- the circumstantials of religion
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