supplementary
supplementary adjective: additional; added to supply what is wanted.
Adjective
supplementary (comparative more supplementary, superlative most supplementary)
- Additional; added to supply what is wanted.
- Thus, leucine is already being seen as a pharmaconutrient of great relevance for the supplementary feeding of malnourished and frail elderly and for specific subpopulations.2015 October 15, “Buffalo Cheese Whey Proteins, Identification of a 24 kDa Protein and Characterization of Their Hydrolysates: In Vitro Gastrointestinal Digestion”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
Noun
supplementary (plural supplementaries)
- Something additional; an extra.
supplementary meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
supplementary in Hindi
- supplementary
- अनुपूरक anupūrak, इज़ाफ़ी izāfī
- supplementary, additional
- परिशिष्ट pariśiṣṭ
supplementary in Tamil
- துணை, துணை தொடர்பான, தொடர்பான, பிற்சேர்கின்ற, மிகை நிரப்பும், மிகைநிரப்புகின்ற
supplementary in Urdu
- supplementary
- اضافی izāfī
More languagesFewer languages
- supplementary in Bengali
- সম্পূরক, পরিপূরক, সাপ্লিমেন্টারি
- supplementary in Telugu
- సప్లిమెంటరీ
- supplementary in Malayalam
- അനുബന്ധമായ, അനുബന്ധകമായ, പരിശിഷ്ടമായ, ഉപാംഗമായ
- supplementary in Kannada
- ಪೂರಕ
- supplementary in Punjabi
- ਪੂਰਕ, ਸਪਲੀਮੈਂਟਰੀ
- supplementary in Gujarati
- પૂરક, સપ્લિમેન્ટરી
- supplementary in Odia
- ପରିପୂରକ, ଅନୁପୂରକ
- supplementary in Sanskrit
- पूरक pūraka
- supplementary in Sinhala
- ඇති දෙයක්
- supplementary in Nepali
- पूरक, अनुपूरक
- supplementary in Arabic
- إِضَافِيّ ʔiḍāfiyy
Examples of supplementary in a sentence
- These definitions delineate the main features of autotrophism versus heterotrophism but some supplementary points are instructive.
- Supplementary relative clauses (which other books call “appositive relatives” or “non-restrictive relatives”) are optional parenthetical interruptions of sentences.
- A list of collocations to accompany the SVL words providing their important lexico-grammatical associations could therefore be a useful supplementary resource.
Forms of supplementary
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more supplementary |
| superlative | most supplementary |
| Noun | |
| plural | supplementaries |
Origin of supplementary
From supplement + -ary; compare French supplémentaire.
Words formed from supplementary
Phrases with supplementary
Questions about supplementary
- What does supplementary mean?
- Supplementary means additional; added to supply what is wanted.
- What is supplementary in Hindi?
- Supplementary in Hindi is अनुपूरक (anupūrak), इज़ाफ़ी (izāfī), परिशिष्ट (pariśiṣṭ). See Supplementary meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is supplementary?
- Supplementary can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near supplementary in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: supplementary (page history and authors); अनुपूरक (Hindi) (page history and authors); supplementary (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); supplementary (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); اضافی (Urdu) (page history and authors); supplementary (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); supplementary (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); supplementary (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); supplementary (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); supplementary (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); supplementary (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); supplementary (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); पूरक (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); supplementary (Sinhala Wiktionary) (page history and authors); supplementary (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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