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

Urán, an auxiliary magistrate of Colombia’s Council of State, was among the dead.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 18 Sep. 2026
Weather data can be used to select cooling modes, which the company says cuts auxiliary power consumption during operation by 30% and standby consumption by 50%.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of auxiliary

Adjective

The back half-acre is described as technically developable, with plans showing potential for two accessory dwelling units.

— David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 19 Sep. 2026
Can’t wait to gaze at the A-listers’ head-turning dresses, inventive accessory equations, and soaring footwear choices?

— Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of accessory

Adjective

Walk through the peripheral forest, and gnarly bundles of sticks and grass hang from the trees above — lifted there from floods months earlier.

— Sean Macaday, Sacbee.com, 20 Sep. 2026
When parents are trying to understand chemotherapy while simultaneously wondering how to pay the mortgage or feed their family, those problems cannot be dismissed as peripheral to the medical care.

— Vidya Puthenpura, Hartford Courant, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of peripheral

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