Synonyms of the word

accessory

• adj. Having a secondary, supplementary or subordinate function by accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in…
• adj. (law) Assisting a crime without actually participating in committing the crime itself.
• adj. Present in a minor amount, and not essential.
• n. Something that belongs to part of another main thing; something additional and subordinate, an attachment.
• n. (fashion) An article that completes one's basic outfit, such as a scarf or gloves.
• n. (law) A person who is not present at a crime, but contributes to it as an assistant or instigator.
• n. (art) Something in a work of art without being indispensably necessary, for example solely ornamental…

accessary

• n. (law) Someone who accedes to some act, now especially a crime; one who contributes as an assistant or…
• adj. (law) Accompanying as a subordinate; additional; accessory; especially, uniting in, or contributing to,…

accouterment

• n. The act of accoutering.
• n. An article of clothing or equipment, in particular when used as an accessory.
• n. (plural only) apparatus needed for a task or journey.
• n. (military, plural only) Equipment other than weapons and uniform.
• n. (plural only) trappings.
• n. An identifying yet superficial characteristic.

accoutrement

• n. The act of accoutering.
• n. An article of clothing or equipment, in particular when used as an accessory.
• n. (plural only) apparatus needed for a task or journey.
• n. (military, plural only) Equipment other than weapons and uniform.
• n. (plural only) trappings.
• n. An identifying yet superficial characteristic.

add-on

• n. Something which can be appended to something else.
• n. (computer hardware, software) A software extension or hardware peripheral that provides additional functions…
• n. (poker) Additional chips that can be purchased at specific times in tournament play.

adjunct

• n. An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.
• n. A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.
• n. (dated, metaphysics) A quality or property of the body or mind, whether natural or acquired, such as colour…
• n. (music) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.
• n. (grammar) A dispensable phrase in a clause or sentence that amplifies its meaning, such as "for a while"…
• n. (syntax, X-bar theory) A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.
• n. (rhetoric) Symploce.
• n. (category theory) One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.
• adj. Connected in a subordinate function.
• adj. Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position.

adjuvant

• adj. helping; helpful; assisting. [from 16th c.].
• adj. (medicine) Designating a supplementary form of treatment; specifically, a cancer therapy administered…
• n. Someone who helps or facilitates; an assistant, a helper. [from 16th c.].
• n. (medicine) Something that enhances the effectiveness of a medical treatment; a supplementary treatment…
• n. (pharmacology) An additive (as in a drug) that aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient…
• n. (pesticide science) An additive (often a separate product) that enhances the efficacy of pesticide products,…
• n. (immunology) A substance enhancing the immune response to an antigen. [from 20th c.].

ancillary

• adj. Subordinate; secondary; auxiliary; accessory.
• n. Something that serves an ancillary function, such as an easel for a painter.
• n. (archaic) An auxiliary.

appurtenance

• n. An appendage added to something else.
• n. (in the plural) Equipment used for some specific task; gear.
• n. The thing to which another pertains.
• n. (law) Minor property (such as an outhouse) that passes with the main property when it is sold.
• n. (grammar) A modifier that is appended or prepended to another word to coin a new word that expresses belonging.

appurtenant

• adj. Of or pertaining to an appurtenance.
• adj. Ancillary or subsidiary.
• n. An appendage or attachment.
• n. (law) A type of easement benefiting real property that "runs with the land" as opposed to an interest…

auxiliary

• adj. Helping; giving assistance or support.
• adj. Supplementary or subsidiary.
• adj. Held in reserve for exceptional circumstances.
• adj. (nautical) Of a ship, having both sails and an engine.
• adj. (grammar) Relating to an auxiliary verb.
• n. A person or group that acts in an auxiliary manner.
• n. A sailing vessel equipped with an engine.
• n. (grammar) An auxiliary verb.
• n. A marching band colorguard.

clothing

• v. present participle of clothe.
• n. Any of a wide variety of articles, usually made of fabrics, animal hair, animal skin, or some combination…
• n. An act or instance of putting clothes on.
• n. (obsolete) The art of process of making cloth.
• n. A covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation…

component

• n. A smaller, self-contained part of a larger entity. Often refers to a manufactured object that is part…
• adj. Making up a larger whole; as a component word.
• adj. Made up of smaller complete units in combination; as a component stereo.

constituent

• adj. Being a part, or component of a whole.
• adj. Authorized to make a constitution.
• n. A part, or component of a whole.
• n. The person or thing which constitutes, determines, or constructs.
• n. A resident of a place represented by an elected official.
• n. (law) One who appoints another to act for him as attorney in fact.
• n. (grammar) A functional element of a phrase or clause.

criminal

• adj. Being against the law; forbidden by law.
• adj. Guilty of breaking the law.
• adj. Of or relating to crime or penal law.
• adj. (figuratively) Abhorrent or very undesirable, even if allowed by law.
• n. A person who is guilty of a crime, notably breaking the law.

crook

• n. A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
• n. A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
• n. A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
• n. (obsolete) A lock or curl of hair.
• n. (obsolete) A gibbet.
• n. (obsolete) A support beam consisting of a post with a cross-beam resting upon it; a bracket or truss consisting…
• n. A shepherd's crook; a staff with a semi-circular bend ("hook") at one end used by shepherds.
• n. A bishop's staff of office.
• n. An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
• n. A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
• n. A pothook.
• n. (music) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
• v. (transitive) To bend.
• v. To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
• adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Bad, unsatisfactory, not up to standard.
• adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Ill, sick.
• adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Annoyed, angry; upset.

element

• n. One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution…
• n. A small part of the whole.
• n. (plural only, with "the") Atmospheric forces such as strong winds and rains.
• n. A place or state of being that an individual or object is better suited towards.
• n. (Christianity, usually in the plural) The bread and wine taken at Holy Communion.
• n. A group of people within a larger group having a particular common characteristic.
• n. A component in electrical equipment, often in the form of a coil, having a high resistance, thereby generating…
• n. (computing) One of the conceptual objects in a markup language, usually represented in text by a matching…

felon

• n. A person who has committed a felony.
• n. (law) A person who has been tried and convicted of a felony.
• n. (medicine) A bacterial infection at the end of a finger or toe.

habiliment

• n. Clothes, especially clothing appropriate for someone's job, status, or to an occasion.
• n. Equipment or furnishings characteristic of a place or being; trappings.

malefactor

• n. A criminal or felon.
• n. An evildoer.

outlaw

• n. A fugitive from the law.
• n. (historical) A criminal who is excluded from normal legal rights; one who can be killed at will without…
• n. A person who operates outside established norms.
• n. A wild horse.
• n. (humorous) An in-law: a relative by marriage.
• n. (slang) A prostitute who works alone, without a pimp.
• v. To declare illegal.
• v. To place a ban upon.
• v. To remove from legal jurisdiction or enforcement.
• v. To deprive of legal force.

subsidiary

• adj. Auxiliary or supplemental.
• adj. Secondary or subordinate.
• adj. Of, or relating to a subsidy.
• n. A company owned by a parent company or a holding company, also called daughter company or sister company.
• n. (music) A subordinate theme.

supplement

• n. Something added, especially to make up for a deficiency.
• n. An extension to a document or publication that adds information, corrects errors or brings up to date.
• n. An additional section of a newspaper devoted to a specific subject.
• n. (geometry) An angle that, when added to a given angle, makes 180°; a supplementary angle.
• n. (nutrition, bodybuilding) A vitamin, herbal extract or chemical compound ingested to meet dietary deficiencies…
• v. To provide or make a supplement to something.

supportive

• adj. Providing support.

vesture

• n. A covering of or like clothing.
• v. (archaic) To clothe.

wear

• v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion.
• v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To defend; protect.
• v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To ward off; prevent from approaching or entering; drive off;…
• v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To conduct or guide with care or caution, as into a fold or…
• v. To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.
• v. To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or…
• v. To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.
• v. (colloquial, with "it") To overcome one's reluctance and endure a (previously specified) situation.
• v. To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce…
• v. (intransitive) To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due…
• v. To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.
• v. (intransitive) To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) (in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue,…
• v. (intransitive, of time) To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.
• v. (nautical) To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed…
• n. (uncountable) (in combination) clothing.
• n. (uncountable) damage to the appearance and/or strength of an item caused by use over time.
• n. (uncountable) fashion.

wearable

• adj. Able to be worn.
• n. Something that can be worn; an item of clothing.
• n. (computing) Clipping of wearable computer (“small computer which can be worn on the body”).