APPURTENANT Synonyms: 49 Similar and Opposite Words

appurtenant

adjective

ə-ˈpərt-nənt

Definition of appurtenant

as in auxiliary

available to supply something extra when needed a store selling tents, sleeping bags, and all manner of appurtenant equipment for a week of roughing it

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Bonta’s office drew down an auxiliary state fund appropriated for such actions by more than $19 million during the 2025-26 fiscal year, the attorney general said in a report to the Legislature also released Tuesday.

— Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Other smaller ethnic auxiliary groups support the government.

— ABC News, ABC News, 31 July 2026

Definition of auxiliary

Adjective

Aircraft owners use charter revenues to offset some of their operating costs, though the extra flights bring additional expenses for maintenance, pilots, and wear-and-tear.

— Doug Gollan, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Operators can scale fueling capacity as additional vehicles enter service without making significant upfront infrastructure investments.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of additional

Adjective

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will publish zoning models — covering everything from parking to accessory dwelling units to triplexes — for cities to adopt, though they’re not required to.

— Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 6 Aug. 2026
Five of the homes would be two-story houses, while the home closest to West 32nd Avenue would include an attached or detached accessory dwelling unit.

— Jessica Alvarado Gamez, Denver Post, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of accessory

Adjective

Even in the third-person narration of Call of the Wild the dramatis personae of eccentric, infighting dogs overshadows the flat and peripheral human characters until Thornton appears.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2026
Born from a collaboration between OpenAI and Work Louder, a peripheral maker best known for making retrofuturistic mechanical keyboards, the Codex Micro is a curious device.

— Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of peripheral

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