incidentally

English

Etymology

incidental +‎ -ly

Adverb

incidentally (comparative more incidentally, superlative most incidentally)

(manner) In an incidental manner; not of central or critical importance.
The book discussed the subject, but only incidentally.
By chance; in an unplanned way.
(speech act, conjunctive) Parenthetically, by the way.
Incidentally, did you hear anything new from your brother yesterday?

Synonyms

(parenthetically): apropos, as a matter of fact, by the way

Antonyms

(in an incidental manner): inevitably, certainly

Translations

in an incidental manner

Albanian: kalimthi (sq)
Arabic: عَلى فِكْرَة‎
Armenian: ի միջի այլոց (i miǰi aylocʿ)
Bulgarian: случайно (bg) (slučajno)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 偶然 (zh)
French: incidemment (fr)
German: nebenbei (de)
Italian: incidentalmente (it)

Japanese: たまたま (ja) (tamatama), 偶然 (ja) (gūzen)
Portuguese: incidentalmente
Romanian: apropo (ro)
Russian: кста́ти (ru) (kstáti)
Scottish Gaelic: eadar dà sgeul
Spanish: incidentalmente (es)
Swedish: apropå (sv), i förbigående (sv)
Turkish: sırası gelmişken (tr), bu arada (tr), bir ara (tr), lâf arasında

without looking for sth/sb

Albanian: kalimthi (sq)
Dutch: toevalligerwijze
German: zufällig (de), zufälligerweise (de)

Portuguese: acidentalmente (pt)
Spanish: casualmente

by the way

Bulgarian: между другото (meždu drugoto)
Esperanto: parenteze
German: apropos (de), übrigens (de), im Übrigen (de), nebenbei gesagt

Irish: dála an scéil
Spanish: por cierto (es), a propósito (es)

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