adj
Meaning 1
Additional; added to supply what is wanted.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
supplementary
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noun
Meaning 2
Something additional; an extra.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
added to complete or make up a deficiency
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- produced supplementary volumes
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: supplemental
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
functioning in a supporting capacity
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the main library and its auxiliary branches
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: auxiliary, subsidiary, supplemental
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From supplement + -ary; compare French supplémentaire.
Across languages
Translations
34 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: إِضَافِيّ (ʔiḍāfiyy) — additional
- Bulgarian: допълнителен (dopǎlnitelen) — additional
- Catalan: suplementari — additional
- Chinese Mandarin: 补充的 (bǔchōng de) — additional
- Chinese Mandarin: 追加的 (zhuījiā de) — additional
- Czech: dodatečný — additional
- Dutch: aanvullend — additional
- Esperanto: aldona — additional
- Finnish: täydentävä — additional
- Finnish: lisä- — additional
- Finnish: täydennys- — additional
- French: supplémentaire — additional
- German: zusätzlich — additional
- Hungarian: kiegészítő — additional
- Italian: supplementare — additional
- Italian: addizionale — additional
- Japanese: 補足の (hosoku no) — additional
- Low German: bito — additional
- Norwegian Bokmål: supplerende — additional
- Polish: dodatkowy — additional
- Polish: uzupełniający — additional
- Polish: pomocniczy — additional
- Polish: nadprogramowy — additional
- Portuguese: suplementar — additional
- Portuguese: adicional — additional
- Russian: доба́вочный (dobávočnyj) — additional
- Russian: дополни́тельный (dopolnítelʹnyj) — additional
- Spanish: suplementario — additional
- Spanish: supletorio — additional
- Swedish: extra — additional
- Turkish: bütünleyici — additional
- Turkish: ilave — additional
- Turkish: tamamlayıcı — additional
- Welsh: atodol — additional
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