coincidental

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++co·in·ci·den·tal /kəʊˌɪnsəˈdentl $ koʊ-/ AWL adjective CHANCE/BY CHANCEhappening completely by chance without being planned 巧合的，碰巧的 → coincidencepurely/completely/entirely coincidental Any similarity between this film and real events is purely coincidental. 本片如与真实事件有任何雷同纯属巧合。 —coincidentally adverb [sentence adverb] We have become profitable. Not coincidentally, we have only half as many employees as we did in 1988. 我们开始赢利了。并非巧合的是，我们的员工人数只有1988年时的一半。

Examples from the Corpus

coincidental• Fourteen months later, a judge said the case against Harris was too coincidental.• Furthermore, the public is told that ail similarities to dolphins are purely coincidental.• His fierce pride demanded that she must assume their meeting had been coincidental.• I had come to believe that on the world stage little occurred that was strictly coincidental.• Such a concentration of comparable geometrical forms can not be coincidental.• These are then excreted and, should they prove to have a useful, coincidental effect, the bacteria thrive.• The link, however, could have been merely coincidental, he noted.purely/completely/entirely coincidental• Furthermore, the public is told that ail similarities to dolphins are purely coincidental.