adjunct

adjunct has 11 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• a.. Conjoined; attending; consequent.
• n.. Something joined or added to another thing, but not essentially a part of it.
• n.. A person joined to another in some duty or service; a colleague; an associate.
• n.. A word or words added to quality or amplify the force of other words; as, the History of the American Revolution, where the words in italics are the adjunct or adjuncts of "History."
• n.. A quality or property of the body or the mind, whether natural or acquired; as, color, in the body, judgment in the mind.
• n.. A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key. [R.] See Attendant keys, under Attendant, a.
• n.. a construction that can be used to extend the meaning of a word or phrase but is not one of the main constituents of a sentence
• n.. something added to another thing but not an essential part of it
• n.. a person who is an assistant or subordinate to another
• a.. of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another
• a.. furnishing added support; "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxiliary to each other"