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Circumstantial vs Undefined - What's the difference?

circumstantial | undefined |

As adjectives the difference between circumstantial and undefined

is that circumstantial is pertaining to or dependent on circumstances, especially as opposed to essentials; incidental, not essential while undefined is lacking a definition or value.

As a noun circumstantial

is (chiefly|in the plural) something incidental to the main subject, but of less importance.

circumstantial

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to or dependent on circumstances, especially as opposed to essentials; incidental, not essential.
  • * Sharp
    • We must therefore distinguish between the essentials in religious worship and what is merely circumstantial .
  • Abounding with circumstances; detailing or exhibiting all the circumstances; minute; particular.
  • * 1806 , )
    • For although my information appears too direct and circumstantial to be fictitious, yet the magnitude of the enterprise, the desperation of the plan, and the stupendous consequences with which it seems pregnant, stagger my belief
  • * 2007 , John Burrow, A History of Histories , Penguin 2009, p. 326:
    • Second-hand but clearly from the best possible source - the King himself - [the story] is highly circumstantial , taking twenty-two pages of text.
  • Full of circumstance or pomp; ceremonial.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, in the plural) Something incidental to the main subject, but of less importance.
    • the circumstantials of religion

    Antonyms

    * essential

    undefined

    English

    Adjective

    (wikipedia undefined) (-)
  • Lacking a definition or value.
  • (mathematics, computing) That does not have a meaning and is thus not assigned an interpretation.
    • The result of division by zero is undefined .

    Antonyms

    * defined