CIRCUMSTANTIAL

adj. 1 indirect, presumptive, evidential or evidentiary, interpretive, deduced, presumed, presumptive, presumable, implicative, implied, inferred, inferential Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a gun in the suspect's house 2 accidental, incidental, hearsay, indirect, unimportant, adventitious, provisional, secondary, unessential, non-essential, fortuitous, chance, extraneous Such circumstantial trivia have no bearing on the case 3 detailed, particular, precise, explicit, specific We cannot believe that he invented so circumstantial a narrative