adjunct

Meaning

Noun

1. An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.
2. A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.
3. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of adjunct professor.
4. An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.
5. (dated) A quality or property of the body or mind, whether natural or acquired, such as colour in the body or judgement in the mind.
6. A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.
7. A phrase within a clause or sentence that is grammatically dispensable but not semantically so, modifying the meaning.
8. A graphic element that modifies another, such as (in Linear B script) a small syllabogram that is attached to a logogram as an abbreviation of an adjective that modifies that logogram (rather than as a phonetic complement that disambiguates the logogram).
9. A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.
10. (rhetoric) Symploce.
11. One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.

Adj

1. Connected in a subordinate function.
2. Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position.

Verb

To work as an adjunct professor.

Synonyms

assistant

addition

accessory

auxiliary

ancillary

appurtenant

adjuvant

helper

supplement

appendage

secondary

subsidiary

adventitious

appendix

adverbial

aided

accessorial

aid

helpmate

supplementary

appurtenance

subordinate

helpmeet

complement

coadjutor

collateral

conducive

donkey

🫏

dummy

extra

famulus

foot soldier

help

helpers

helpful

helping

helpmates

incidental

lieutenant

modifier

odd

offshoot

parenthetical

peripheral

pony

reckoning

second fiddle

servant

side

side-issue

Translations

adjoint

auxiliar

adjunto

acessório

accessoire

accesorio

adjunto

Zusatz

bijlage

adjunct

auxiliaire

assistant

secondaire

secundário

Helfer

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈæd͡ʒ.ʌŋkt/

Etymology

From Latin adiunctus, perfect passive participle of adiungō (“join to”), from ad + iungō (“join”). Doublet of adjoint.