Adjacent Words

supplementary definitions

	Tweet

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: functioning in a supporting capacity; "the main library and its auxiliary branches" [syn: auxiliary, subsidiary, supplemental, supplementary]
2: added to complete or make up a deficiency; "produced supplementary volumes" [syn: supplementary, supplemental]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1667 1. added or serving as a supplement ; additional <supplementary reading> 2. being or relating to a supplement or a supplementary angle

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. forming or serving as a supplement; additional. Phrases and idioms: supplementary benefit (in the UK) a weekly allowance paid by the State to those not in full-time employment and with an income below a certain level (cf. family credit). Derivatives: supplementarily adv.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Supplemental Sup`ple*men"tal, Supplementary Sup`ple*men"ta*ry, a. [Cf. F. suppl['e]mentaire.] Added to supply what is wanted; additional; being, or serving as, a supplement; as, a supplemental law; a supplementary sheet or volume. Supplemental air (Physiol.), the air which in addition to the residual air remains in the lungs after ordinary expiration, but which, unlike the residual air, can be expelled; reserve air. Supplemental bill (Equity), a bill filed in aid of an original bill to supply some deffect in the latter, or to set forth new facts which can not be done by amendment. --Burrill. --Daniel. Supplementary chords (Math.), in an ellipse or hyperbola, any two chords drawn through the extremities of a diameter, and intersecting on the curve.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Supplementary things are added to something in order to improve it. ...the question of whether or not we need to take supplementary vitamins... Provide them with additional background or with supplementary information. = extra ADJ: usu ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Additional, supplemental.

Moby Thesaurus

accessory, accidental, added, additional, adjunct, adscititious, adventitious, ancillary, annexed, another, appended, appurtenant, ascititious, attached, auxiliary, casual, circumstantial, collateral, contingent, contributory, excess, extra, extraneous, farther, fortuitous, fresh, further, incidental, inessential, more, new, nonessential, other, plus, secondary, spare, subordinate, subsidiary, superadded, superfluous, supernumerary, supervenient, supplemental, supportive, surplus, ulterior, unessential