auxiliary

auxiliary is a 9-letter English word with 8 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops. Face value is 19 in Scrabble and 20 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 19 · Words With Friends 20 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops.
2. noun. A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise.
3. noun. Foreign troops in the service of a nation at war; (rarely in sing.), a member of the allied or subsidiary force.
4. sing. A verb which helps to form the voices, modes, and tenses of other verbs; -- called, also, an auxiliary verb; as, have, be, may, can, do, must, shall, and will, in English; etre and avoir, in French; avere and essere, in Italian; estar and haber, in Spanish.
5. sing. A quantity introduced for the purpose of simplifying or facilitating some operation, as in equations or trigonometrical formulae.
6. noun. someone who acts as assistant

   Synonyms: aide

7. adjective. functioning in a supporting capacity

   "the main library and its auxiliary branches"

   Synonyms: subsidiary, supplemental, supplementary

8. adjective. furnishing added support

   "an ancillary pump"

   "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"

   Synonyms: accessory, adjunct, adjuvant, ancillary, appurtenant

Synonyms

aide, subsidiary, supplemental, supplementary, accessory, adjunct, adjuvant, ancillary, appurtenant

Common word forms

auxiliaries

Words from these letters

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