OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 13992

circumstantial

/səɹ.kəmˈstænʃəl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
indiciario
Involving evidence that relies on inference to connect it to a conclusion of fact, thus, suggesting guilt but not directly proving it.
It is unlikely he will be convicted; the evidence against him is circumstantial at best.
Never, he said, in the course of his long experience, had he known a charge of murder rest on slighter evidence. Not only was it entirely circumstantial, but the greater part of it…
circunstancial • minucioso
Abounding with minor circumstances; in great detail; particular.
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 consequence…
My Unkle's account is more circumstantial I must confess—but I believe mine is the true one for all that.
pomposo
Full of circumstance or pomp; ceremonial.