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supplementary
adjective
Synonyms and Antonyms of SUPPLEMENTARY
1
available to supply something extra when needed <the teacher's edition of the textbook comes with a lot of supplementary material>
Related Words backup, makeshift, substitute; added, additional, another, further; complementary, contributory; adjuvant, assistant, assisting, helping, supportive, tributary; secondary, subordinate, subservient, subsidiary; dispensable, excess, nonessential, superfluous, surplus, unessential
Near Antonyms basic, fundamental, primary, prime; all-important, essential, imperative, indispensable, integral, necessary, needed, needful, required, requisite, vital
2
related to each other in such a way that one completes the other <regards theology and philosophy as supplementary fields of study>
Related Words cooperative, mutual, symbiotic; collective, combined, common, communal, conjoint, joint, shared, united
Antonyms noncomplementary, nonreciprocal
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