'adjunct' definitions:
Definition of 'adjunct'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Furnishing added support; "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxiliary to each other" [syn: accessory, adjunct, ancillary, adjuvant, appurtenant, auxiliary]
adjective
Of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another [syn: adjunct, assistant]
noun
Something added to another thing but not an essential part of it
noun
A person who is an assistant or subordinate to another
noun
A construction that can be used to extend the meaning of a word or phrase but is not one of the main constituents of a sentence
Synonyms of 'adjunct'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accession,
- accessory,
- accident,
- accidental,
- accord,
- accretion,
- addendum,
- addition,
- adjunction,
- adornment,
- affairs,
- affiliation,
- affinity,
- affix,
- affixation,
- agglutination,
- aggrandizement,
- alliance,
- ally,
- ampliation,
- amplification,
- annexation,
- appanage,
- appendage,
- appendix,
- approximation,
- appurtenance,
- arrangement,
- aspect,
- assemblage,
- associate,
- association,
- attachment,
- attendant,
- augmentation,
- auxiliary,
- bedfellow,
- bond,
- broadening,
- brother,
- brother-in-arms,
- circumstance,
- closeness,
- coadjutor,
- cohort,
- collateral,
- colleague,
- color,
- color patterns,
- combination,
- companion,
- compatriot,
- compeer,
- component,
- comrade,
- concomitant,
- confederate,
- confrere,
- connectedness,
- connection,
- consociate,
- consort,
- constituent,
- contents,
- contiguity,
- contingency,
- contingent,
- contrariety,
- corollary,
- crescendo,
- crony,
- cross section,
- dealings,
- decor,
- decoration,
- deduction,
- deployment,
- detachment,
- detail,
- disjunction,
- dispersion,
- division,
- dole,
- elaboration,
- element,
- embellishment,
- emblazonment,
- emblazonry,
- embroidery,
- enlargement,
- expansion,
- extension,
- extra,
- factor,
- fanning out,
- feature,
- fellow,
- fellow member,
- filiation,
- fixings,
- fixture,
- flare,
- flourish,
- flower arrangement,
- fraction,
- furniture arrangement,
- garnish,
- garnishment,
- garniture,
- happenstance,
- hiking,
- homology,
- illumination,
- incidental,
- increase,
- inessential,
- ingredient,
- installment,
- integrant,
- intercourse,
- intimacy,
- item,
- joining,
- junction,
- juxtaposition,
- liaison,
- link,
- linkage,
- linking,
- magnification,
- makings,
- mere chance,
- mutual attraction,
- nearness,
- nonessential,
- not-self,
- ornament,
- ornamentation,
- other,
- parcel,
- part,
- part and parcel,
- particular,
- percentage,
- portion,
- prefixation,
- propinquity,
- proximity,
- quadrant,
- quarter,
- quota,
- raising,
- random sample,
- rapport,
- reinforcement,
- relatedness,
- relation,
- relations,
- relationship,
- remainder,
- sample,
- sampling,
- secondary,
- section,
- sector,
- segment,
- share,
- similarity,
- specialty,
- splay,
- spread,
- spreading,
- subdivision,
- subgroup,
- subsidiary,
- subspecies,
- suffixation,
- superaddition,
- superfetation,
- superjunction,
- superposition,
- supplement,
- supplementation,
- sympathy,
- tie,
- tie-in,
- trim,
- trimming,
- unessential,
- union,
- uniting,
- upping,
- widening,
- window dressing