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SUPPORTING
| Main Entry: |
supporting
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | advocating |
| Synonyms: | aiding, ancillary, auxiliary, collateral, corroborative, for |
| Antonyms: | against, opposing |
| Concept: | Support. |
| Category: | 2. LINEAR DIMENSIONS |
| Synonyms: |
-adjectives
supporting, supported; fundamental; dorsigerous.
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| Main Entry: | affirmative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | being agreeable or assenting |
| Synonyms: | acknowledging, acquiescent, affirmatory, affirming, approving, complying, concurring, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, consenting, corroborative, endorsing, favorable, positive, ratifying, supporting |
| Antonyms: | dissenting, negative |
| Main Entry: | auxiliary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | supplementary |
| Synonyms: | abetting, accessory, adjuvant, ancillary, appurtenant, backup, complementary, contributory, extra, reserve, secondary, spare, subordinate, subservient, subsidiary, supporting |
| Antonyms: | body, main |
| Main Entry: | collateral |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | indirect, secondary |
| Synonyms: | accessory, accompanying, added, adjunctive, adjuvant, ancillary, appurtenant, attendant, auxiliary, circuitous, coincident, complementary, concomitant, concurrent, confirmatory, coordinate, corresponding, corroborative, dependent, incident, lateral, not lineal, parallel, related, roundabout, satellite, side, sub, subordinate, subservient, subsidiary, supporting, tributary, under |
| Antonyms: | chief, direct, main, primary, principal |
| Main Entry: | fundamental |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | basic, important |
| Synonyms: | axiological, axiomatic, basal, bottom, bottom-line, cardinal, central, constitutional, constitutive, crucial, elemental, elementary, essential, first, foundational, grass-roots, indispensable, integral, intrinsic, key, major, meat-and-potatoes, necessary, organic, original, paramount, primary, prime, primitive, primordial, principal, radical, requisite, rudimentary, significant, structural, substratal, substrative, supporting, sustaining, theoretical, underived, underlying, vital |
| Antonyms: | additional, advanced, auxiliary, extra, minor, secondary, subordinate, trivial, unimportant |
| Main Entry: | second |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | next; subordinate |
| Synonyms: | additional, alternative, another, double, duplicate, extra, following, further, inferior, lesser, lower, next in order, other, place, repeated, reproduction, runner-up, secondary, subsequent, succeeding, supporting, twin, unimportant |
| Main Entry: | secondary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | subordinate; less important |
| Synonyms: | accessory, alternate, auxiliary, backup, bush-league, collateral, consequential, contingent, dependent, dinky, extra, inconsiderable, inferior, insignificant, lesser, lower, minor, minor-league, petty, relief, reserve, second, second-rate, small, small-fry, small-time, subject, subservient, subsidiary, substract, supporting, tributary, trivial, under, unimportant |
| Antonyms: | first-class, first-rate, important, primary, superior |
| Main Entry: | supplemental |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | additional |
| Synonyms: | adscititious, auxiliary, derivative, supporting |
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