[
UK
/sˈɜːkəmstˌɑːnʃəl/
]
[ US /ˌsɝkəmˈstænʃəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˌsɝkəmˈstænʃəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
fully detailed and specific about particulars
a circumstantial report about the debate
How To Use circumstantial In A Sentence
- The criminal inquiry relies on circumstantial evidence and does not solve the riddle of MH370. Times, Sunday Times
- Kids, who are circumstantial outsiders, tend to identify with such creatures and envision them as their vengeful protectors.
- The former, in relation to a thing as being in the number of entities; (2.) the latter, in reference to something inherng in a thing, being present with it or one of its circumstantials -- or in reference to a thing as producing something else, or as being produced by some other -- and if there be any other affections and relations of things among themselves. The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1
- In order to be able to convict him, they're going to be able to tie him, circumstantially or through direct evidence, to the deaths of these individuals.
- a circumstantial report about the debate
- The lack of evidence and the circumstantial nature of the testimony caused a public outcry.
- A superintendent told the court that no body or weapon had been found, but that there was an overwhelming amount of circumstantial evidence.
- You can't convict a man of a crime on circumstantial evidence alone.
- Since then more and more circumstantial evidence, much of it detailed and plausible, has been discovered as more alleged victims have come forward. Times, Sunday Times
- It was a complex case and the evidence was circumstantial. Times, Sunday Times