Synonyms of the word

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.

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…

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.

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…

assistant

• adj. Having a subordinate or auxiliary position.
• adj. Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.
• n. (obsolete) Someone who is present; a bystander, a witness.
• n. A person who assists or helps someone else.
• n. (Britain) Sales assistant.
• n. A software tool that provides assistance in some task.

associate

• adj. Joined with another or others and having equal or nearly equal status.
• adj. Having partial status or privileges.
• adj. Following or accompanying; concomitant.
• adj. (biology, dated) Connected by habit or sympathy.
• n. A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner.
• n. Somebody with whom one works, coworker, colleague.
• n. A companion; a comrade.
• n. One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance.
• n. A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges.
• v. (intransitive) To join in or form a league, union, or association.
• v. (intransitive) To spend time socially; keep company.
• v. (transitive) To join as a partner, ally, or friend.
• v. (transitive) To connect or join together; combine.
• v. (transitive) To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination.
• v. (reflexive, in deliberative bodies) To endorse.
• v. (mathematics) To be associative.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To accompany; to be in the company of.

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.

construction

• n. The process of constructing.
• n. Anything that has been constructed.
• n. The trade of building structures.
• n. A building, model or some other structure.
• n. (art) A (usually non-representational) structure, such as a collage etc.
• n. The manner in which something is built.
• n. (grammar) A group of words arranged to form a meaningful phrase.
• n. The act or result of construing the meaning of something.
• n. The meaning or interpretation of a text, action etc.; the way something is viewed by an observer or onlooker.
• n. (geometry) A geometric figure of arcs and line segments that is drawable with a straightedge and compass.

expression

• n. A particular way of phrasing an idea.
• n. A colloquialism or idiom.
• n. A facial appearance usually associated with an emotion.
• n. (mathematics) An arrangement of symbols denoting values, operations performed on them, and grouping symbols.
• n. (biology) The process of translating a gene into a protein.
• n. (programming) A piece of code in a high-level language that returns a value.
• n. Of a mother, the process of expressing milk.
• n. A specific blend of whisky.

inessential

• adj. Not essential.
• adj. Lacking essence or being.
• n. (often in plural) Something that is not essential.

low-level

• adj. relatively unimportant.
• adj. not intense.
• adj. (computing) of, or relating to a program, or to code in which each statement corresponds to a single machine…
• adj. details.

nonessential

• adj. Not required; not essential.
• n. Something that is not essential.

subordinate

• adj. Placed in a lower class, rank, or position.
• adj. Submissive or inferior to, or controlled by, authority.
• adj. (grammar, of a clause, not comparable) dependent on and either modifying or complementing the main clause.
• n. (countable) One who is subordinate.
• v. (transitive) To make subservient.
• v. (transitive) To treat as of less value or importance.
• v. (transitive, finance) To make of lower priority in order of payment in bankruptcy.

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.

supportive

• adj. Providing support.