circumstantial
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Is circumstantial a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (law) Involving evidence that relies on inference to connect it to a conclusion of fact, thus, suggesting guilt but not directly proving it.Examples: "It is unlikely he will be convicted; the evidence against him is circumstantial at best."; "Never, he said, in the course of his long experience, had he known a charge of murder rest on slighter evidence. Not only was it entirely circumstantial, but the greater part of it was practically unproved."
noun (English)
1. (chiefly in the plural) Something incidental to the main subject, but of less importance.Examples: "the circumstantials of religion"Antonyms: essentialin-plural
2. (grammar) An adjunct or circumstant.
Definition source: Wiktionary