circumstantial
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Tính từ
adjective- 1.
Pertaining to or dependent on circumstances, especially as opposed to essentials; incidental, not essential.
- 2.
(law) Involving evidence that relies on inference to connect it to a conclusion of fact, thus, suggesting guilt but not directly proving it.
It is unlikely he will be convicted; the evidence against him is circumstantial at best.
- 3.
Abounding with minor circumstances; in great detail; particular.
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 […]
- 4.
Full of circumstance or pomp; ceremonial.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(in plural)(chiefly in the plural) Something incidental to the main subject, but of less importance.
the circumstantials of religion
- 2.
(grammar) An adjunct or circumstant.
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circumstance From Latin circumstantia + English -al, equivalent to circumstance + -ial.