incidentally

English

Etymology

incidental +‎ -ly

Adverb

incidentally (comparative more incidentally, superlative most incidentally)

1. (manner) In an incidental manner; not of central or critical importance.

   The book discussed the subject, but only incidentally.

2. By chance; in an unplanned way.
3. (speech act, conjunctive) Parenthetically, by the way.

   Incidentally, did you hear anything new from your brother yesterday?

Synonyms

(parenthetically): : by the way, as a matter of fact

Translations

In an incidental manner

Albanian: kalimthi (sq) Arabic: عَلى فِكْرَة (ar) Armenian: ի միջի այլոց (hy) (i miǰi ayloc’) French: incidemment (fr) German: apropos (de), nebenbei (de) Italian: incidentalmente (it)

Romanian: apropo (ro) Russian: кстати (ru) (kstáti) Scottish Gaelic: eadar dà sgeul (gd) Swedish: apropå (sv) Turkish: sırası gelmişken (tr), bu arada (tr), bir ara (tr), lâf arasında (tr)

Without looking for sth/sb

Albanian: kalimthi (sq) Dutch: toevalligerwijze (nl)

German: zufällig (de), zufälligerweise (de)