Usually means: Dependent on specific conditions, situations.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word circumstantial:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. circumstantial: Merriam-Webster
  2. circumstantial: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. circumstantial: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. circumstantial: Collins English Dictionary
  5. circumstantial: Vocabulary.com
  6. Circumstantial, circumstantial: Wordnik
  7. circumstantial: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. circumstantial: Wiktionary
  9. circumstantial: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. circumstantial: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. circumstantial: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. circumstantial: Dictionary.com
  13. circumstantial: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Circumstantial: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Circumstantial: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. circumstantial: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. circumstantial: Rhymezone
  18. Circumstantial: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. circumstantial: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. circumstantial: FreeDictionary.org
  21. circumstantial: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. circumstantial: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. circumstantial: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. circumstantial: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. circumstantial: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. circumstantial: Medical dictionary

(Note: See circumstantiality as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Pertaining to or dependent on circumstances, especially as opposed to essentials; incidental, not essential.
adjective:  Abounding with minor circumstances; in great detail; particular.
adjective:  Full of circumstance or pomp; ceremonial.
adjective:  (law) Suggesting guilt, but not proving it conclusively.
noun:  (chiefly in the plural) Something incidental to the main subject, but of less importance.

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