peripheral

Speech parts

1. peripheral - Noun

2. peripheral - Adjective

3. peripheral - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of or pertaining to a periphery; constituting a periphery; peripheric.

External; away from the center; as, the peripheral portion of the nervous system.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

peripheral device supplementary external secondary edge exterior marginal incidental outermost ancillary nonessential outer outlying peri second
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Antonyms

central arch supreme cardinal kern midland
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Hypernyms

electronic equipment

Hyponyms

mouse printer input device output device data input device

Phrases with the word

peripheral field peripheral nerve neoplasm peripheral nerve sheath tumor peripheral edema be peripheral peripheral unit

Examples

A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples. Emily Greene Balch

You can see the future best through peripheral vision. Nicholas Negroponte

Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within. Steven Pressfield

Monsters just outside our peripheral vision are scarier to contemplate than monsters miles away or in someplace only a fool would set foot in. Andrew Pyper

The school was nothing but reminiscence - of an Italian hill town, a French abbey, an English academy, the different sources improbably but convincingly melded into a fantasy about the classic sites of Europe as imagined by exiles from cold peripheral lands, nostalgia about somebody else's past. Edmund White

I have this home in New York, I have a long-term relationship with my boyfriend, who's from Australia, and I had this business that I had maintain. Even though I wasn't actively shooting, there's a lot of peripheral work. Claire Danes

Close letter words and terms

periphallic peripharyngeal peripherad peripheral artery disease peripheral brain peripheral device