Adjunct

Quick meaning: Adjunct is a noun meaning An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.

Meaning

An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.

More Meanings

1. A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.
2. (education) Ellipsis of adjunct professor.
3. (brewing) An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.
4. (music) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.
5. (grammar) A phrase within a clause or sentence that is grammatically dispensable but not semantically so, modifying the meaning.
6. (palaeography) A graphic element that modifies another, such as (in Linear B script) a small syllabogram that is attached to a logogram as an abbreviation of an adjective that modifies that logogram (rather than as a phonetic complement that disambiguates the logogram).
7. (dated, metaphysics) A quality or property of the body or mind, whether natural or acquired, such as colour in the body or judgement in the mind.

Example Sentences

Though that my death were adiunct to my Act, By heauen I would doe it.

Learning is but an adiunct to our ſelfe, And where we are, our Learning likewiſe is.

Lie here ye weedes that I diſdaine to weare, This compleat armor, and this curtle-axe / Are adiuncts more beſeeming Tamburlaine.

A boot-stand, on which all the boots and shoes should be arranged in regular order, with boot-jacks and boot-hooks, is a necessary adjunct to the gentleman's dressing-room.

Word Forms

• adjuncts
• adjuncting
• adjuncted

Synonyms for adjunct

Depending on context, synonyms include accessory, accompaniment, addition, add-on, affix, annex.

Antonyms for adjunct

Common opposites include decrement, remainder.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include accessory, appurtenant, ancillary, subsidiary, auxiliary, adjuvant.

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