INCIDENT: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for INCIDENT?

Need another word that means the same as “incident”? Find 29 synonyms and 30 related words for “incident” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Incident” are: event, occurrence, occasion, episode, experience, happening, proceeding, eventuality, affair, business, disturbance, fracas, melee, commotion, rumpus, scene, confrontation, skirmish, brush, encounter, engagement, collision, conflict, fight, battle, excitement, adventure, drama, incidental

Incident as a Noun

Definitions of "Incident" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “incident” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• The occurrence of dangerous or exciting things.
• A privilege, burden, or right attaching to an office, estate, or other holding.
• A public disturbance.
• A single distinct event.
• A hostile clash between forces of rival countries.
• An instance of something happening; an event or occurrence.
• A violent event, such as a fracas or assault.

Synonyms of "Incident" as a noun (28 Words)

adventure	A commercial venture. I sold my East India adventure of 250 principal for 750.
affair	A matter that is a particular person’s concern or responsibility. The party was quite an affair.
battle	A lengthy and difficult conflict or struggle. Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga.
brush	The act of brushing your teeth. The dentist recommended two brushes a day.
business	Business concerns collectively. Maybe something positive will come out of the whole awful business.
collision	An instance of two or more records being assigned the same identifier or location in memory. A mid air collision between two aircraft.
commotion	Civil insurrection. Damage caused by civil commotion.
conflict	A prolonged armed struggle. The familiar conflict between Republicans and Democrats.
confrontation	A situation where two players or sides compete to win a sporting contest. The government was not ready for a confrontation with the unions.
disturbance	Interference with rights or property. Children with learning difficulty and personality disturbance.
drama	A dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage. Teachers who use drama are working in partnership with pupils.
encounter	A confrontation or unpleasant struggle. She felt totally unnerved by the encounter.
engagement	A mutual promise to marry. He lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement.
episode	A section between two choric songs in Greek tragedy. The whole episode has been a major embarrassment.
event	A phenomenon located at a single point in space-time; the fundamental observational entity in relativity theory. He repeated the success in the four lap 600 cc event.
eventuality	A possible event or occurrence or result. Be prepared for all eventualities.
excitement	Something that arouses a feeling of excitement. Her cheeks were flushed with excitement.
experience	The knowledge or skill acquired by a period of practical experience of something especially that gained in a particular profession. That painful experience certainly got our attention.
fight	The inclination or ability to fight or struggle. The fight was on television last night.
fracas	Noisy quarrel. The fracas was broken up by stewards.
happening	An event that happens. A multimedia happening.
melee	A confused fight or scuffle. Several people were hurt in the melee.
occasion	A suitable or opportune time for doing something. On the occasion of his 60th birthday.
occurrence	An event that happens. The occurrence of cancer increases with age.
proceeding	(law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked.
rumpus	A noisy disturbance; a row. He caused a rumpus with his flair for troublemaking.
scene	The pieces of scenery used in a play or opera. Their parting was a sad scene.
skirmish	A minor short-term fight. There was a skirmish over the budget.

Usage Examples of "Incident" as a noun

• The police investigated an incident at the bus station.
• One person was stabbed in the incident.
• There was not one incident of teasing from the 90 pupils.
• Several amusing incidents.
• My period in Egypt wasn't without incident.
• The US regretted the incident.

Incident as an Adjective

Definitions of "Incident" as an adjective

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “incident” as an adjective can have the following definitions:

• Minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence.
• Liable to happen because of; resulting from.
• Relating to incidence.
• (sometimes followed by `to') minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence.
• Falling or striking of light rays on something.
• (especially of light or other radiation) falling on or striking something.
• Attaching to.

Synonyms of "Incident" as an adjective (1 Word)

incidental

(sometimes followed by `to’) minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence. Confusion incidental to a quick change.

Usage Examples of "Incident" as an adjective

• Labor problems incidental to a rapid expansion.
• Incidental expenses.
• The changes incident to economic development.
• Confusion incidental to a quick change.
• Extra duties incidental to the job.
• The road will bring other incidental advantages.
• The costs properly incident to a suit for foreclosure or redemption.
• The incident angle.
• When an ion beam is incident on a surface.

Associations of "Incident" (30 Words)

accident	Anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause. Members belong to the House of Lords through hereditary right or accident of birth.
accidental	Happening by chance or unexpectedly or unintentionally. Accidental poisoning.
accidentally	Of a minor or subordinate nature. His gun went off accidentally.
activate	Aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter. Activate a metal.
actually	At the present moment. We must pay attention to what young people are actually doing.
case	The quantity contained in a case. The cases that we studied were drawn from two different communities.
coincidence	The fact of corresponding in nature or in time of occurrence. It was a coincidence that she was wearing a jersey like Laura s.
contemporaneous	Of the same period. Pythagoras was contemporaneous with Buddha.
episode	A section between two choric songs in Greek tragedy. The whole episode has been a major embarrassment.
event	Each of several particular contests making up a sports competition. He repeated the success in the four lap 600 cc event.
exist	Have an existence be extant. Two conflicting stereotypes of housework exist in popular thinking.
hap	An accidental happening. If you have the good hap to come into their houses.
happen	Happen occur or be the case in the course of events or by chance. Two hours had passed and still nothing had happened.
happening	An event that happens. Altogether it was an eerie happening.
inadvertently	Without knowledge or intention. His name had been inadvertently omitted from the list.
incidence	The relative frequency of occurrence of something. The point of incidence of the beam.
incidental	An item that is incidental. An allowance to cover meals taxis and other incidentals.
materialize	Come into being; become reality. Her dream really materialized.
occasion	Give occasion to. On one occasion I stayed up until two in the morning.
occur	Come to pass. It occurred to him that he hadn t eaten.
occurrence	An event that happens. The occurrence of natural gas fields.
pentathlon	An athletic event comprising five different events for each competitor in particular also modern pentathlon an event involving fencing shooting swimming riding and cross country running.
phenomenon	A remarkable development. The band was a pop phenomenon just for their sales figures alone.
recur	Go back to (something) in thought or speech. This is a recurring story.
recurring	Coming back. Gratitude is a recurring theme in the book.
traumatic	Of or relating to a physical injury or wound to the body. She is remembering some deeply traumatic incident in her past.
unexpected	Not expected or regarded as likely to happen. Unexpected news.
unforeseen	Not anticipated. Unforeseen circumstances.
unintentionally	Without intention; in an unintentional manner. I may have unintentionally misled some of you.
upcoming	Of the relatively near future. The upcoming election.