1. Occurring with or following as a consequence
   "snags incidental to the changeover in management";
   - attendant, consequent, accompanying, concomitant, ensuant, resultant, sequent, collateral
    
2. Occurring by chance consequence but of minor or secondary importance
   "Any resemblance to real persons is purely incidental";
   - accidental
    
3. Not of prime or central importance
   "incidental to the integral meanings of poetry";
   - nonessential, accidental

1. A minor expense or item that is secondary to the main purpose
   "She bought snacks and other incidentals for the road trip"
    
2. (frequently plural) an expense not budgeted or not specified
   "he requested reimbursement of $7 for incidental expenses";
   - incidental expense, minor expense

Derived forms: incidentals

See also: inessential, omissible, parenthetic, parenthetical, peripheral, secondary, subsequent, unessential

Type of: expense, item, point

Encyclopedia: Incidental