Adjective: adventitious
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more adventitious |
| Superlative | most adventitious |
Sample Sentences
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In a triad of verbs that admits nothing adventitious, Judah sees, takes, and lies with a woman; […] [1981, Robert Alter, “A Literary Approach to the Bible”, in The Art of Biblical Narrative, page 6:]
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The discovery of the art of making pottery was probably in all cases adventitious, the clay being first used for some other purpose. [1895, Alfred C. Haddon, Evolution in Art, pages 101–102:]
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The adventitious disappearance of those nearer the throne than the duke had, moreover, set tongues awagging. [2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 30:]
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The Velloziaceae have evolved a woody stem which is covered with a layer of adventitious roots mingled with the fibres of the old leaf sheaths; [1985, R. M. T. Dahlgren, H. T. Clifford, P. F. Yeo, The Families of the Monocotyledons, page 101:]
Adjectives inflected like adventitious
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Medieval Latin adventītius (“coming from abroad, extraneous”), a corruption of Latin adventīcius (“foreign, strange, accidental”), from adventus (“arrival, coming, approach, advent”) + -īcius (suffix forming adjectives), from adveniō (“to arrive”) + -tus (suffix forming action nouns). See: Latin Adjectives '
adventīcius'.