circumstantial

Plural: circumstantials

Adjective Satellite

• fully detailed and specific about particulars
  • "a circumstantial report about the debate"

Adj

• Pertaining to or dependent on circumstances, especially as opposed to essentials; incidental, not essential.
• Involving evidence that relies on inference to connect it to a conclusion of fact, thus, suggesting guilt but not directly proving it.
• Abounding with minor circumstances; in great detail; particular.
• Full of circumstance or pomp; ceremonial.

Noun

• Something incidental to the main subject, but of less importance.

Examples

• It is unlikely he will be convicted; the evidence against him is circumstantial at best.
• the circumstantials of religion

Synonyms

accidental, circumstantial, coincidental, coinstantial, contingent, happenstantial, incidental, secondary

Antonyms

certain, essential, impossible, inevitable, necessary

Related Words

instantial

Anagrams of circumstantial