Accessory

[ək'ses(ə)rɪ] or [ək'sɛsəri]

Definition

(noun.) a supplementary component that improves capability.

(noun.) clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing.

(noun.) someone who helps another person commit a crime.

(adj.) furnishing added support; 'an ancillary pump'; 'an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism'; 'The mind and emotions are auxiliary to each other' .

Edited by Edith--From WordNet

Definition

(a.) 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.

(n.) That which belongs to something else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate.

(n.) Same as Accessary, n.

(n.) Anything that enters into a work of art without being indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental parts.

Inputed by Juana

Synonyms and Synonymous

a. Assisting, ACCESSARY.

n. [1]. Confederate, ACCESSARY.[2]. Accompaniment, attendant, concomitant.

Typist: Nathaniel

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Accomplice, associate, abettor, ally, colleague, confederate, helper

ANT:Foe, antagonist, adversary, rival

Inputed by Joanna

Definition

adj. additional: contributing to: aiding: (law) participating in a crime as in reset of theft and the like.—n. anything additional: one who aids or gives countenance to a crime.—adj. Accessōr′ial relating to an accessory.—adv. Ac′cessorily in the manner of an accessory: by subordinate means.

Editor: Pratt

Examples

Typed by Chauncey

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