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SUPPLEMENTARY Antonyms

There are 10 antonyms of the word supplementary. (opposite meanings)
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Best Opposite Words For SUPPLEMENTARY

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central
adjectiveadj
adjective

• in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area

noun

• a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication

adjective satellite

• serving as an essential component

core
noun, adjectiven, adj
noun

• a small group of indispensable persons or things

• an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality

• the center of an object

• the central part of the Earth

• the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience

• a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill

• the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

• (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories

• the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place

• a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil

verb

• remove the core or center from

crucial
adjectiveadj
adjective

• of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis

adjective satellite

• having crucial relevance

• of the greatest importance

essential
adjectiveadj
adjective

• basic and fundamental

• being or relating to or containing the essence of a plant etc

• defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established

noun

• anything indispensable

adjective satellite

• absolutely necessary; vitally necessary

• of the greatest importance

fundamental
adjectiveadj
noun

• any factor that could be considered important to the understanding of a particular business

• the lowest tone of a harmonic series

adjective satellite

• serving as an essential component

• being or involving basic facts or principles

• far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something

integral
nounn
adjective

• of or denoted by an integer

noun

• the result of a mathematical integration; F(x) is the integral of f(x) if dF/dx = f(x)

adjective satellite

• existing as an essential constituent or characteristic

• constituting the undiminished entirety; lacking nothing essential especially not damaged

main
noun, adjectiven, adj
adjective

• (of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence

noun

• any very large body of (salt) water

• a principal pipe in a system that distributes water or gas or electricity or that collects sewage

adjective satellite

• most important element

• of force; of the greatest possible intensity

necessary
adverb, adjectiveadv, adj
adjective

• absolutely essential

noun

• anything indispensable

adjective satellite

• unavoidably determined by prior circumstances

primary
noun, adjectiven, adj
adjective

• of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary

noun

• a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen

• one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing

• (astronomy) a celestial body (especially a star) relative to other objects in orbit around it

• coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit

adjective satellite

• not derived from or reducible to something else; basic

• most important element

• of or being the essential or basic part

principal
nounn
noun

• the original amount of a debt on which interest is calculated

• the educator who has executive authority for a school

• an actor who plays a principal role

• capital as contrasted with the income derived from it

• (criminal law) any person involved in a criminal offense, regardless of whether the person profits from such involvement

• the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account

adjective satellite

• most important element

Alternatives for CENTRAL

Alternatives for CORE

Alternatives for CRUCIAL

Alternatives for ESSENTIAL

Alternatives for FUNDAMENTAL

Alternatives for INTEGRAL

Alternatives for MAIN

Alternatives for NECESSARY

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