Circumstantial
adjective
Connected to a situation but not of central importance.
We need to take all the circumstantial factors into account.
Often appears as...
- circumstantial factors
- circumstantial evidence
adjective
Providing indirect evidence.
The jury based their decision on circumstantial evidence.
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
Giving detailed and extensive information.
He gave a circumstantial account of the incident.
adjective
Connected to a situation but not of central importance.
We need to take all the circumstantial factors into account.
Often appears as...
- circumstantial factors
- circumstantial evidence
adjective
Providing indirect evidence.
The jury based their decision on circumstantial evidence.
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
Giving detailed and extensive information.
He gave a circumstantial account of the incident.
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/2Not Crucial
Circumstantial in this context means related but not essential for understanding the main point.
The book included some circumstantial information that wasn't critical to the plot.
Pro Tip 2/2Consider Context
Think about how circumstantial aspects might influence a situation without causing it directly.
The weather was a circumstantial factor in the traffic jam.
Pro Tip 1/2Not Crucial
Circumstantial in this context means related but not essential for understanding the main point.
The book included some circumstantial information that wasn't critical to the plot.
Pro Tip 2/2Consider Context
Think about how circumstantial aspects might influence a situation without causing it directly.
The weather was a circumstantial factor in the traffic jam.
Pro Tip 1/2Not Crucial
Circumstantial in this context means related but not essential for understanding the main point.
The book included some circumstantial information that wasn't critical to the plot.
Pro Tip 2/2Consider Context
Think about how circumstantial aspects might influence a situation without causing it directly.
The weather was a circumstantial factor in the traffic jam.
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Unpacking the nuts and...
software to the world no one knows who Satoshi is and Satoshi disappeared from the community over a year ago so there but there is relatively strong evidence circumstantial evidence that Satoshi had ties to a group of hackers known as the cypherpunks and here are some of the
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Wings of the Albatross PIPE...
lives at sea and those are still the least known of all even with all the advances in modern science and sensing technologies of the last two decades most of the knowledge we have about albatross is still circumstantial and
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Frank Gehry: Nice...
That was my response to the people in the time. And actually, it was responding to clients that I had who didn't have very much money, so they couldn't afford very much. I think it was circumstantial.
Video examples
Unpacking the nuts and...
software to the world no one knows who Satoshi is and Satoshi disappeared from the community over a year ago so there but there is relatively strong evidence circumstantial evidence that Satoshi had ties to a group of hackers known as the cypherpunks and here are some of the
Video examples
Wings of the Albatross PIPE...
lives at sea and those are still the least known of all even with all the advances in modern science and sensing technologies of the last two decades most of the knowledge we have about albatross is still circumstantial and
Video examples
Frank Gehry: Nice...
That was my response to the people in the time. And actually, it was responding to clients that I had who didn't have very much money, so they couldn't afford very much. I think it was circumstantial.
Example 1 of 3
Quote examples
T. B. Joshua
Nigerian Clergyman
When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity would continue to fluctuate rather than being stable. This is why I am enabled to maintain a balance and stable approach to the challenges that come my way every day. I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God.
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Elisabeth Moss
American Actress
I love working with male actors, and I think there's a tendency to write really interesting characters that would work solely alongside men where they would be in a man's world and have to deal with that, and it creates a lot of interesting storylines. For me, it's kind of circumstantial, but I definitely enjoy it.
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Levi Woodbury
American Judge
Juries must, of necessity, be governed, in reaching many results through inferences from other facts, by certain laws of nature and human reason. They are often obliged to infer one thing from another, and this, whether that other be a fact direct or circumstantial.
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Jesse Plemons
American Actor
Breaking Bad' is great at blurring the line between good and evil. It makes you feel compassion for Walter White so you're with him throughout this descent into the darker parts of his psyche. The bad that we're capable of is all circumstantial.
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Jai Courtney
Australian Actor
With 'Divergent' and 'Insurgent,' there isn't great emphasis on uniformity; it's a vigilante military, the state is in disarray, and there is no reference point for authenticity, so it's just weapons work and circumstantial fighting.
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Horace Walpole
English Author
How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.
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Cai Guo-Qiang
Chinese Artist
Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.
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Arthur Conan Doyle
British Writer
Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.
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Mike Pence
American Vice President
There's overwhelming evidence... circumstantial and otherwise, to suggest a connection between Iraq and al Qaeda.
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Bernard Goldberg
American Writer
Circumstantial evidence is evidence.
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T. B. Joshua
Nigerian Clergyman
When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity would continue to fluctuate rather than being stable. This is why I am enabled to maintain a balance and stable approach to the challenges that come my way every day. I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God.
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Elisabeth Moss
American Actress
I love working with male actors, and I think there's a tendency to write really interesting characters that would work solely alongside men where they would be in a man's world and have to deal with that, and it creates a lot of interesting storylines. For me, it's kind of circumstantial, but I definitely enjoy it.
Quote examples
Levi Woodbury
American Judge
Juries must, of necessity, be governed, in reaching many results through inferences from other facts, by certain laws of nature and human reason. They are often obliged to infer one thing from another, and this, whether that other be a fact direct or circumstantial.
Quote examples
Jesse Plemons
American Actor
Breaking Bad' is great at blurring the line between good and evil. It makes you feel compassion for Walter White so you're with him throughout this descent into the darker parts of his psyche. The bad that we're capable of is all circumstantial.
Quote examples
Jai Courtney
Australian Actor
With 'Divergent' and 'Insurgent,' there isn't great emphasis on uniformity; it's a vigilante military, the state is in disarray, and there is no reference point for authenticity, so it's just weapons work and circumstantial fighting.
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Horace Walpole
English Author
How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.
Quote examples
Cai Guo-Qiang
Chinese Artist
Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.
Quote examples
Arthur Conan Doyle
British Writer
Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.
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Mike Pence
American Vice President
There's overwhelming evidence... circumstantial and otherwise, to suggest a connection between Iraq and al Qaeda.
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Bernard Goldberg
American Writer
Circumstantial evidence is evidence.
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