Associations to the word «Adventitious»

Wiktionary

ADVENTITIOUS, adjective. From an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign.
ADVENTITIOUS, adjective. Accidental, additional, appearing casually.
ADVENTITIOUS, adjective. (genetics) (medicine) Not congenital; acquired.
ADVENTITIOUS, adjective. (biology) Developing in an unusual place or from an unusual source.

Dictionary definition

ADVENTITIOUS, adjective. 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".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne