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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Adjective

The original downtown location serves as an auxiliary office supporting the apparel and kids divisions, but staff there will soon relocate to the new campus.

— Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 27 Oct. 2026
The proof uses an auxiliary partial differential equation to establish Sogge’s local smoothing for waves in every spatial dimension at least two.

— Richard Lawler, The Verge, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of auxiliary

Adjective

The governor and secretary of state’s offices did not provide any additional information about whether election officials elsewhere in California had been subpoenaed.

— Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 30 Oct. 2026
Investments include additive manufacturing equipment, precision machining capabilities, and additional production facilities.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of additional

Adjective

There are elongated east-west shapes that tap into one of the year’s biggest accessory trends, alongside more relaxed, but equally of-the-moment slouchy options.

— Andrea Zendejas, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2026
And that means looking beyond the traditional single-family house to a wide mix of options, such as apartments, townhomes, smaller accessible homes and accessory dwelling units like spaces above garages or backyard cottages.

— Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of accessory

Adjective

When viewers focus on one gear, the other, as seen through peripheral vision, appears to spin faster — though both are moving at the same speed.

— Margaret Hetherman, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2026
But dependency theorists took a more pessimistic view of the possibility of economic development in peripheral countries under global capitalism.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Oct. 2026

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