adventitious Meaning, Definition & Usage

adjective satellite associated by chance and not an integral part
- 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

L. adventitius.

Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign.
To things of great dimensions, if we annex an adventitious idea of terror, they become without comparison greater. Burke.
(Nat. Hist.) Out of the proper or usual place; as, adventitious buds or roots.
(Bot.) Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied to foreign plants.
(Med.) Acquired, as diseases; accidental. -- Ad`ven*ti"tious*ly, adv. -- Ad`ven*ti"tious*ness, n.