supplementary

Speech parts

1. supplementary - Noun

2. supplementary - Adjective

3. supplementary - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Added to supply what is wanted; additional; being, or serving as, a supplement; as, a supplemental law; a supplementary sheet or volume.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

auxiliary supplemental further secondary extra supplement complementary subsidiary accessory incidental ancillary adjunct additional added more
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Antonyms

supreme cardinal prime premier central first
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Phrases with the word

supplementary memory supplementary storage supplementary course supplementary building more supplementary as a supplementary remark

Examples

This is the law. The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. The sword is more important than the shield, and skill is more important than either. The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplementary. John Steinbeck

Conscience is deceived by the social. Our supplementary energy (imaginative) is to a great extent taken up with the social. It has to be detached from it. That is the most difficult of detachments. Simone Weil

No doubt very few people understand the purely subjective nature of the phenomenon that we call love, or how it creates, so to speak, a supplementary person, distinct from the person whom the world knows by the same name, a person most of whose constituent elements are derived from ourselves. Marcel Proust

Mind training matters. It is not just a luxury, or a supplementary vitamin for the soul. It determines the quality of every instant of our lives. Norman Doidge

In any revolution, its internal causes are fundamental and its external ones are supplementary. Mao Zedong

the main library and its auxiliary branches Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

supplementarily supplementariness supplementarity supplementary angle supplementary angles supplementary benefit