Adjunct

English

Noun

Adjunct (plural Adjuncts)

1. An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity
2. A person associated with another in a subordinate position
3. (grammar) A dispensable phrase in a clause or sentence that amplifies its meaning, such as "for a while" in "I typed for a while".
4. (rhetoric) Symploce

Adjectives for Adjunct

impressive; non-essential; inevitable; external; unusual; absurd; impedimental; artificial.

Synonyms for Adjunct

addition, appendage, complement, appurtenance, auxiliary, dependency.

Antonyms for Adjunct

subtraction, removal, lessening, disjunction.

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; embroidery; enlargement; expansion; extension; extra; factor; fanning out; feature; fellow; 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; superposition; supplement; supplementation; sympathy; tie; tie-in; trim; trimming; unessential; union; uniting; upping; widening; window dressing