[
  {
    "word": "by accident",
    "phonetics": [],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "Accidental; as the result of some unforeseen happening or series of events; unexpected; resulting from an event without the foresight, expectation, aid, or design of the person by whose agency it was caused; unintentional.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "That the injury was by accident is not questioned."
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [
          "causeless",
          "incidental",
          "unintended"
        ],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "adverb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "Accidentally; unintentionally; without meaning to; as the result of an event not expected, aided, or willingly planned.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Sorry. I knocked over the vase by accident."
          },
          {
            "definition": "As the result of some undesigned, unintended, unrelated, natural, or random occurrence; as the unexpected and unforeseen result of formerly unrelated factors.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The car got totaled by accident; a giant snowdrift fell off the church roof."
          },
          {
            "definition": "By chance; unexpectedly; as the result of an unrelated series of events.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "I hadn't seen her for years, but I ran into her by accident at the store."
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/by%20accident"
    ]
  }
]