ancillary

ancillary is a 9-letter English word with 2 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Subservient or subordinate, like a handmaid; auxiliary. Face value is 14 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 14 · Words With Friends 17 · 2 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Subservient or subordinate, like a handmaid; auxiliary.
2. adjective. furnishing added support

   "an ancillary pump"

   "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"

   Synonyms: accessory, adjunct, adjuvant, appurtenant, auxiliary

Synonyms

accessory, adjunct, adjuvant, appurtenant, auxiliary

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in ancillary:

carlylian, cranially

Common word forms

ancillaries

Words from these letters

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