Word Meanings - ADJUVANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Helping; helpful; assisting. "Adjuvant causes." Howell.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ADJUVANT)

• Subsidiary
• Assistant
• ancillary
• helpful
• adjuvant
• conducive
• favourable
• promotive
• adminicular
• corroborative
• tending

Related words: (words related to ADJUVANT)

• ASSISTANTLY
  In a manner to give aid.
• TENDER
  A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes
• TENDERLY
  In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly. Chaucer.
• TENDANCE
  1. The act of attending or waiting; attendance. Spenser. The breath Of her sweet tendance hovering over him. Tennyson. 2. Persons in attendance; attendants. Shak.
• TENDERNESS
  The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy.
• CONDUCIVENESS
  The quality of conducing.
• TENDRESSE
  Tender feeling; fondness.
• ANCILLARY ADMINISTRATION
  An administration subordinate to, and in aid of, the primary or principal administration of an estate.
• TENDON
  A tough insensible cord, bundle, or band of fibrous connective tissue uniting a muscle with some other part; a sinew. Tendon reflex , a kind of reflex act in which a muscle is made to contract by a blow upon its tendon. Its absence is generally
• PROMOTIVE
  Tending to advance, promote, or encourage. Hume.
• TENDRILED; TENDRILLED
  Furnished with tendrils, or with such or so many, tendrils. "The thousand tendriled vine." Southey.
• TENDRIL
  A slender, leafless portion of a plant by which it becomes attached to a supporting body, after which the tendril usually contracts by coiling spirally. Note: Tendrils may represent the end of a stem, as in the grapevine; an axillary branch, as
• ADMINICULAR
  Supplying help; auxiliary; corroborative; explanatory; as, adminicular evidence. H. Spencer.
• TENDER-HEARTED
  Having great sensibility; susceptible of impressions or influence; affectionate; pitying; sensitive. -- Ten"der-heart`ed*ly, adv. -- Ten"der-heart`ed*ness, n. Rehoboam was young and tender-hearted, and could not withstand them. 2 Chron. xiii. 7.
• TENDRON
  A tendril. Holland.
• TEND
  To make a tender of; to offer or tender.
• TENDRE
  Tender feeling or fondness; affection. You poor friendless creatures are always having some foolish tendre. Thackeray.
• TENDERLOIN
  A strip of tender flesh on either side of the vertebral column under the short ribs, in the hind quarter of beef and pork. It consists of the psoas muscles.
• TENDERFOOT
  A delicate person; one not inured to the hardship and rudeness of pioneer life.
• TENDENCY
  Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result. Writings of this kind, if conducted with candor, have a more particular tendency to the good of their country.
• INTENDENT
  See N
• INTENDIMENT
  Attention; consideration; knowledge; understanding. Spenser.
• OBTEND
  1. To oppose; to hold out in opposition. Dryden. 2. To offer as the reason of anything; to pretend. Dryden
• COADJUVANT
  Coöperating.
• EXTENDLESSNESS
  Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
• PRETENDER
  The pretender , the son or the grandson of James II., the heir of the royal family of Stuart, who laid claim to the throne of Great Britain, from which the house was excluded by law. It is the shallow, unimproved intellects that are the confident
• ENTEND
  To attend to; to apply one's self to. Chaucer.
• PRETENDANT
  A pretender; a claimant.
• PORTEND
  to impend, from an old preposition used in comp. + tendere to 1. To indicate as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs. Bacon. Many signs portended a dark and stormy day. Macaulay. 2. To stretch
• ATTENDMENT
  An attendant circumstance. The uncomfortable attendments of hell. Sir T. Browne.
• UPPERTENDOM
  The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper.
• EXTENDANT
  Displaced. Ogilvie.
• INTENDANT
  One who has the charge, direction, or management of some public business; a superintendent; as, an intendant of marine; an intendant of finance.