nonaccidental
Done with intent
Nonaccidental means not occurring by chance or accident—deliberate or intentional.
The term appears most often in medical and legal contexts, where nonaccidental injury or nonaccidental trauma refers to wounds inflicted purposely, typically in cases of suspected child abuse: The pattern of bruises suggested nonaccidental injury.
Consciously chosen, not accidental
- purposefulDone with intention
- plannedDecided on beforehand
- designedCreated according to plan
- calculatedFigured out mathematically
premeditated · willful · conscious · meant · intended · volitional · purposive · knowing
Deserving of blame
- negligentFailing in due care
- recklessCarelessly ignoring danger
- liableLegally responsible for something
- blameworthyDeserving of censure
responsible · accountable · criminal · wrongful · tortious · prosecutable · indictable · chargeable
Having notable importance
- meaningfulHaving purpose or significance
- systematicFollowing ordered procedures
- patternedHaving repeated decorative designs
- correlatedMutually related statistically
causal · reproducible · consistent · nonrandom · deterministic · reliable · predictable · structured
Indispensable, cannot omit
- essentialFundamentally necessary
- intrinsicBelonging by nature
- inherentExisting as essential part
- fundamentalForming the base
constitutive · deterministic · causal · inevitable · substantive · ontological · categorical · unconditional
deliberate
Consciously chosen, not accidental
- purposefulDone with intention
- plannedDecided on beforehand
- designedCreated according to plan
calculated · premeditated · willful · conscious · meant · intended · volitional · purposive · knowing · studied
culpable
Deserving of blame
- negligentFailing in due care
- recklessCarelessly ignoring danger
- liableLegally responsible for something
blameworthy · responsible · accountable · criminal · wrongful · tortious · prosecutable · indictable · chargeable · punishable
significant
Having notable importance
- meaningfulHaving purpose or significance
- systematicFollowing ordered procedures
- patternedHaving repeated decorative designs
correlated · causal · reproducible · consistent · nonrandom · deterministic · reliable · predictable · structured · biased
necessary
Indispensable, cannot omit
fundamental · constitutive · deterministic · causal · inevitable · substantive · ontological · categorical · unconditional · absolute
nonaccidentalaccidental
Occurring by chance
unintentional · inadvertent · random · chance · unplanned
nonaccidentalaccidental
Occurring by chance
accidental injury · accident · unintentional harm · mishap · innocent
accident, accidental, accidentally, accidents, incidental, incidentally