noun
- Clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing.
- synonyms: accoutrement, accouterment
- A supplementary component that improves capability.
- synonyms: appurtenance, supplement, add-on
- Someone who helps another person commit a crime.
- synonyms: accessary
adjective
- Aiding and abetting in a crime.
- usage: "he was charged with being accessory to the crime"
- synonyms: accessary
- Furnishing added support.
- usage: "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxiliary to each other"
- synonyms: adjunct, ancillary, adjuvant, appurtenant, auxiliary
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