Definition of Accessory

  • (a.) Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contributory; said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music.
  • (n.) That which belongs to something else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate.
  • (n.) Same as Accessary, n.
  • (n.) Anything that enters into a work of art without being indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental parts.

Homophones of Accessory


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