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circumstantial

adjective

Reveal meaning and examples

Based on surrounding facts that support an inference about what happened.

The matching footprints were circumstantial evidence that someone had entered the shed.

Dictionary practice example.

Damp trails beside the toy-boat course were circumstantial evidence that someone had tested a model early, but no observer had seen the trial.