supplement

Speech parts

1. supplement - Noun

2. supplement - Verb

Meaning

That which supplies a deficiency, or meets a want; a store; a supply.

That which fills up, completes, or makes an addition to, something already organized, arranged, or set apart; specifically, a part added to, or issued as a continuation of, a book or paper, to make good its deficiencies or correct its errors.

The number of degrees which, if added to a specified arc, make it 180¡; the quantity by which an arc or an angle falls short of 180 degrees, or an arc falls short of a semicircle.

To fill up or supply by addition; to add something to.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

addition appendix supplementary extra boost complement add-on accessory adjunct supplementation append affix top up inc amendment
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Antonyms

lower loss fall date epitome reduce
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Hypernyms

increase matter element represent component add

Hyponyms

appendix annex sequel continuation fitting leverage

Phrases with the word

kalonji supplement magnesium oxide supplement color supplement free supplement single-room supplement sole supplement

Derivatives

supplemented supplementing

Examples

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest. Friedrich Nietzsche

I believe that you can, by taking some simple and inexpensive measures, extend your life and your years of well-being. My most important recommendation is that you take vitamins every day in optimun amounts, to supplement the vitamins you receive in your food. Linus Pauling

Reason and emotion counsel and supplement each other. Whoever heeds only the one, and puts aside the other, recklessly deprives himself of a portion of the aid granted us for the regulation of our conduct. Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues

During the early 1960s, I decided to supplement research support for quantitative economic studies at Pennsylvania by selling econometric forecasts to private and public sector buyers. Lawrence Klein

I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income. Jack Steinberger

If one category had to be designated as an emblem of my thought, it would be neither Cantor's pure multiple, nor Godel's constructible, nor the void, by which being is named, nor even the event, in which the supplement of what-is-not-being-qua-being originates. It would be the generic. Alain Badiou

Close letter words and terms

Supplee supplejack supplely supplement your income supplementable supplemental