What is "circumstantial" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does circumstantial mean in English? Meaning of circumstantial definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "circumstantial" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "circumstantial": fully detailed and specific about particulars

Adjective

  • Meaning: fully detailed and specific about particulars
  • Example: a circumstantial report about the debate
  • Synonyms: circumstantial
  • Similar: specific
  • Pronunciation in UK: /səːkəmˈstanʃəl/

  • Adjective: Pertaining to or dependent on circumstances, especially as opposed to essentials; incidental, not essential. Sharp We must therefore distinguish between the essentials in religious worship […] and what is merely circumstantial.Sharp We must therefore distinguish between the essentials in religious worship […] and what is merely circumstantial.Abounding with circumstances; detailing or exhibiting all the circumstances; minute; particular. 1806, James Wilkinson, Letter to Thomas Jefferson (October 21, 1806) (part of Burr conspiracy) For although my information appears too direct and circumstantial to be fictitious, yet the magnitude of the enterprise, the desperation of the plan, and the stupendous consequences with which it seems pregnant, stagger my belief […] 2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin 2009, p. 326: Second-hand but clearly from the best possible source - the King himself - [the story] is highly circumstantial, taking twenty-two pages of text.1806, James Wilkinson, Letter to Thomas Jefferson (October 21, 1806) (part of Burr conspiracy) For although my information appears too direct and circumstantial to be fictitious, yet the magnitude of the enterprise, the desperation of the plan, and the stupendous consequences with which it seems pregnant, stagger my belief […]2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin 2009, p. 326: Second-hand but clearly from the best possible source - the King himself - [the story] is highly circumstantial, taking twenty-two pages of text.Full of circumstance or pomp; ceremonial.
  • Synonyms:

    indirect, inconclusive, coincidental, concomitant, concurrent, conjectural, contingent, detailed, fortuitous, inferential, presumptive, provisional, uncertain, amplified, environmental,

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    circumstantial in English: circumstantial
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