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Meaning of 'accessory' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Accessory [ a.]
- Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contributory; said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music.
2 . Accessory [ n.]
- That which belongs to something else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate.
- Same as Accessary, n.
- Anything that enters into a work of art without being indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental parts.

Meaning of 'accessory' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . accessory [ s]
Meaning (1):
- furnishing added support
Example in sentence:
  • an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism;
  • an ancillary pump;
  • The mind and emotions are auxiliary to each other
Meaning (2):
- aiding and abetting in a crime
Example in sentence:
  • he was charged with being accessory to the crime

Nearby Words:

accadian accede acceded accedence acceder acceding accelerando accelerate accelerated accelerating

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