Synonyms of the word

secondary

• adj. Next in order to the first or primary; of second place in origin, rank, etc.
• adj. Originating from a deputy or delegated person or body.
• adj. (organic chemistry) Derived from a parent compound by replacement of two atoms of hydrogen by organic…
• adj. (geology) produced by alteration or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rocks mass.
• adj. (geology) developed by pressure or other causes.
• adj. (anatomy) Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird.
• adj. (medicine) Dependent or consequent upon another disease, or occurring in the second stage of a disease.
• adj. Of less than primary importance.
• adj. (education) related to secondary education, i.e. schooling between the ages of 11 and 18.
• adj. (manufacturing) relating to the manufacture of goods from raw materials.
• adj. (of a color) Formed by mixing primary colors.
• n. (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the ulna (forearm) of a bird.
• n. (finance) An act of issuing more stock by an already publicly traded corporation.
• n. (American football, Canadian football) The defensive backs.
• n. (electronics) An inductive coil or loop that is magnetically powered by a primary in a transformer or…
• n. One who occupies a subordinate or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy.
• n. (astronomy) A secondary circle.
• n. (astronomy) A satellite.
• n. Used as an abbreviation to refer to items with names containing secondary.

alternate

• adj. Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one…
• adj. (mathematics) Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another…
• adj. (US) Other; alternative.
• adj. (botany) Distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects…
• n. That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.
• n. (US) A substitute; an alternative; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing…
• n. (mathematics) A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.
• n. (US) A replacement of equal or greater value or function.
• n. (heraldry) Figures or tinctures that succeed each other by turns.
• v. (transitive) To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.
• v. (intransitive) To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; followed…
• v. (intransitive) To vary by turns.
• v. (transitive, geometry) To perform an alternation (removal of alternate vertices) on (a polytope or tessellation);…

alternative

• adj. Relating to a choice between two or more possibilities.
• adj. Not traditional, outside the mainstream, underground (e.g., alternative medicine, alternative lifestyle,…
• adj. Other.
• adj. alternate; reciprocal.
• n. A situation which allows a mutually exclusive choice between two or more possibilities; a choice between…
• n. One of several mutually exclusive things which can be chosen.
• n. The remaining option; something available after other possibilities have been exhausted.

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.

coil

• n. Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.
• n. Any intrauterine device (Abbreviation: IUD)—the first IUDs were coil-shaped.
• n. (electrical) A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.
• n. (figuratively) Entanglement; perplexity.
• v. To wind or reel e.g. a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece.
• v. To wind into loops (roughly) around a common center.
• v. To wind cylindrically or spirally.
• v. (obsolete, rare) To encircle and hold with, or as if with, coils.
• n. (now obsolete except in phrases) A noise, tumult, bustle, or turmoil.

collateral

• adj. Parallel, along the same vein, side by side.
• adj. Corresponding; accompanying, concomitant.
• adj. Being aside from the main subject, target, or goal; tangential, subordinate, ancillary.
• adj. Of an indirect ancestral relationship, as opposed to lineal descendency.
• adj. Relating to a collateral in the sense of an obligation or security.
• adj. Expensive to the extent of being paid through a loan.
• adj. Coming or directed along the side.
• adj. Acting in an indirect way.
• n. A security or guarantee (usually an asset) pledged for the repayment of a loan if one cannot procure enough…
• n. (now rare) A collateral (not linear) family member.
• n. A branch of a bodily part or system of organs.
• n. (marketing) Printed materials or content of electronic media used to enhance sales of products (short…
• n. A thinner blood vessel providing an alternate route to blood flow in case the main vessel becomes occluded.

formation

• n. Something possessing structure or form.
• n. The act of assembling a group or structure.
• n. (geology) A rock or face of a mountain.
• n. (military) A grouping of military units or smaller formations under a command, such as a brigade, division,…
• n. (military) An arrangement of moving troops, ships, or aircraft, such as a wedge, line abreast, or echelon…
• n. (sports) An arrangement of players designed to facilitate certain plays.
• n. The process of influencing or guiding a person to a deeper understanding of a particular vocation.
• n. The process during which something comes into being and gains its characteristics.

incident

• n. An event or occurrence.
• n. A (relatively minor) event that is incidental to, or related to others.
• n. An event that may cause or causes an interruption or a crisis.
• n. In safety, an incident of workplace illness or injury.
• adj. Arising as the result of an event, inherent.
• adj. (physics, of a stream of particles or radiation) Falling on or striking a surface.
• adj. Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course of things; not in connection with the main design;…
• adj. Liable to happen; apt to occur; befalling; hence, naturally happening or appertaining.
• adj. (law) Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal.

incidental

• adj. Loosely associated; existing as a byproduct, tangent, or accident; being a likely consequence.
• adj. Occurring by chance.
• adj. (physics, of radiation) Entering or approaching, prior to reflection (more frequently incident).
• n. Minor items, not further defined. Incidental expense.
• n. Something that is incidental.

indirect

• adj. Not direct; roundabout; deceiving; setting a trap; confusing.

inessential

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

inferior

• adj. of lower quality.
• adj. of lower rank.
• adj. located below.
• adj. (botany) Situated below some other organ; said of a calyx when free from the ovary, and therefore below…
• adj. (botany) On the side of a flower which is next to the bract; anterior.
• adj. (astronomy) Nearer to the Sun than the Earth is.
• adj. (astronomy) Below the horizon.
• n. a person of lower stature to another.

junior

• adj. (comparable) Low in rank; having a subordinate role, job, or situation.
• adj. (not comparable, often preceded by a possessive adjective or a possessive form of a noun) Younger.
• adj. (not comparable) Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.
• adj. (not comparable, chiefly US) Of or pertaining to a third academic year in a four-year high school (eleventh…
• n. A younger person.
• n. A name suffix used after a son's name when his father has the same name (abbreviations: Jnr., Jr., Jun…
• n. (chiefly US) A third-year student at a high school or university.

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.

lowly

• adj. Not high; not elevated in place; low.
• adj. Low in rank or social importance.
• adj. Not lofty or sublime; humble.
• adj. Having a low esteem of one's own worth; humble; meek; free from pride.
• adv. In a low manner; humbly; meekly; modestly.
• adv. In a low condition; meanly.

minor

• adj. Of little significance or importance.
• adj. (music) Of a scale which has lowered scale degrees three, six, and seven relative to major, but with the…
• adj. (music) being the smaller of the two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number.
• n. A person who is below the legal age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities…
• n. A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who…
• n. (mathematics) determinant of a square submatrix.
• n. (British slang, dated) A younger brother (especially at a public school).
• n. (zoology) A small worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony, sized between a minim and a media.
• v. To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.

petty

• adj. (obsolete except in set phrases) Little, small, secondary in rank or importance.
• adj. Insignificant, trifling, or inconsiderable.
• adj. Narrow-minded, small-minded.
• n. (usually in the plural, obsolete) A little schoolboy, either in grade or size.
• n. (now historical) A class or school for young schoolboys.
• n. (dialect, euphemistic) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.

second-string

• adj. belonging to the second string of a team.
• adj. substitute or replacement.
• adj. second most important.

secondhand

• adj. (of goods) not new; previously owned and used by another.
• adj. (of a dealer) dealing in such merchandise.
• adj. indirect.
• adv. In a used or previously-owned condition.
• adv. indirectly.

standby

• n. A state of readiness without immediate involvement; remaining in preparation for (a sudden or unforeseen…
• n. (electronics) sleep mode.
• n. (travel) Waiting at the airport in the hope of getting a seat on a flight that is already booked out.
• n. Something that is standard, well-tested, or frequently used.
• v. (proscribed neologism, operations) To wait briefly, as for additional communication by radio or telephone;…

subaltern

• adj. Of a lower rank or position; inferior or secondary; especially (military) ranking as a junior officer,…
• adj. (logic) Asserting only a part of what is asserted in a related proposition.
• n. A subordinate.
• n. (Britain) A commissioned officer having a rank below that of captain; a lieutenant or second lieutenant.
• n. (logic) A subaltern proposition; a proposition implied by a universal proposition. For example, some crows…
• n. (social sciences) A member of a group that is socially, politically and geographically outside of the…

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.

substitute

• v. (transitive) To use in place of something else, with the same function.
• v. (transitive) In the phrase "substitute X with/by Y", to use Y in place of X; to replace X with Y.
• v. (transitive, sports) To remove (a player) from the field of play and bring on another in his place.
• v. (intransitive) To serve as a replacement (for someone or something).
• n. A replacement or stand-in for something that achieves a similar result or purpose.
• n. (sports) A player who is available to replace another if the need arises, and who may or may not actually…
• n. (historical) One who enlists for military service in the place of a conscript.

supplemental

• adj. Acting to supplement.
• adj. Appending.
• adj. Lacking a regular schedule (as in a supplemental airline).
• n. Something that supplements or adds to.
• n. A requisition or article of legislation that provides additional funding for a program.

supplementary

• adj. Additional; added to supply what is wanted.
• n. Something additional; an extra.

thirdhand

• adj. Having been relayed by two intermediate sources.
• adj. Having had two previous owners.
• adv. By two intermediates.

tributary

• n. A natural water stream that flows into a larger river or other body of water.
• n. A nation, state, or other entity that pays tribute.
• adj. Related to the paying of tribute.
• adj. subordinate; inferior.
• adj. Yielding supplies of any kind; serving to form or make up, a greater object of the same kind, as a part,…

unessential

• adj. Not essential; unimportant.
• adj. Void of essence, or real being.

unoriginal

• adj. lacking originality.

utility

• n. The state or condition of being useful; usefulness.
• n. Something that is useful.
• n. (economics) The ability of a commodity to satisfy needs or wants; the satisfaction experienced by the…
• n. (philosophy) Well-being, satisfaction, pleasure, or happiness.
• n. (business, finance) A service provider, such as an electric company or water company; or, the securities…
• n. (computing) A software program designed to perform a single task or a small range of tasks, often to help…
• n. (sports) The ability to play multiple positions.
• adj. Having to do with, or owned by, a service provider.
• adj. Designating of a room in a house or building where mechanical equipment is installed; such as a furnace,…

vicarious

• adj. Experienced or gained by the loss or to the consequence of another person, rather than through first-hand…
• adj. Done on behalf of others.