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Defenition of the word secondary

    • Defenition of the word secondary

      • Administrative classification in the UK for a road, generally linking smaller towns and villages
      • Succeeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, etc.
      • inferior in rank or status; "the junior faculty"; "a lowly corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate functionary"
      • belonging to a lower class or rank
      • not of major importance; "played a secondary role in world events"
      • of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate; "the stone will be hauled to a secondary crusher"; "a secondary source"; "a secondary issue"; "secondary streams"
      • depending on or incidental to what is original or primary; "a secondary infection"
      • the defensive football players who line up behind the linemen
      • of the stage of education and schools preceding collegiate; "secondary school"; "high school"
      • current is induced in the secondary coil by passing a current through the primary coil
      • coil such that current is induced in it by passing a current through the primary coil
      • not of major importance
      • being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate
      • depending on or incidental to what is original or primary
      • inferior in rank or status

    Synonyms for the word secondary

      • consequent
      • consequential
      • derivative
      • derived
      • high
      • inferior
      • junior-grade
      • less important
      • lesser
      • lower
      • lower-ranking
      • lowly
      • minor
      • petty
      • resultant
      • resulting
      • secondary coil
      • secondary winding
      • subaltern
      • subordinate

    Similar words in the secondary

      • alternate
      • alternative
      • auxiliary
      • collateral
      • incident
      • incidental
      • indirect
      • inessential
      • junior
      • low-level
      • minor
      • second-string
      • secondary
      • secondhand
      • standby
      • subordinate
      • subsidiary
      • substitute
      • substitute(a)
      • supplemental
      • supplementary
      • thirdhand
      • tributary
      • unessential
      • unoriginal
      • utility
      • utility(a)
      • vicarious

    Meronymys for the word secondary

      • back
      • eleven
      • football team
      • transformer

    Hypernyms for the word secondary

      • coil
      • formation

    Antonyms for the word secondary

      • elementary
      • intermediate
      • middle
      • primary

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