Dictionary Entry
accessory
accessory is a 9-letter English word with 9 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contributory; said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 17 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contributory; said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music.
- 2noun
That which belongs to something else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate.
- 3noun
Same as Accessary, n.
- 4noun
Anything that enters into a work of art without being indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental parts.
- 5noun
a supplementary component that improves capability
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- 6noun
clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing
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- 7noun
someone who helps another person commit a crime
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- 8adjective
furnishing added support
"an ancillary pump"
"an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"
- 9adjective
aiding and abetting in a crime
"he was charged with being accessory to the crime"
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