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| Main Entry: | peripheral |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | minor, outside |
| Synonyms: | beside the point, borderline, exterior, external, incidental, irrelevant, minor, outer, outermost, secondary, superficial, surface, tangential, unimportant, inessential, perimetric |
| Antonyms: | central, crucial, internal, major |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | component |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | part, element |
| Synonyms: | constituent, factor, fixings, ingredient, item, making, peripheral, piece, segment, unit, makings, plug-in |
| Antonyms: | whole |
| Main Entry: | exterior |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | outside |
| Synonyms: | external, extraneous, extraterrestrial, extrinsic, foreign, marginal, outdoor, outer, outermost, outlying, outward, over, peripheral, superficial, surface, exoteric, extraterritorial, outmost |
| Antonyms: | central, interior, middle |
| Main Entry: | external |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | outside, extrinsic |
| Synonyms: | alien, apparent, exterior, extraneous, foreign, independent, out, outer, outermost, outward, over, peripheral, superficial, surface, visible, outmost |
| Antonyms: | inside, internal, intrinsic |
| Main Entry: | frivolous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | trivial, silly |
| Synonyms: | barmy*, childish, dizzy*, empty-headed*, facetious, featherbrained*, flighty, flip, flippant, foolish, gay, giddy*, harebrained*, idiotic, idle, impractical, juvenile, light, minor, niggling*, paltry, peripheral, petty, playful, pointless, puerile, scatterbrained*, senseless, shallow, sportive, superficial, tongue-in-cheek*, unimportant, volatile, whimsical, ill-considered, light-minded, nonserious, not serious, unprofound |
| Antonyms: | grave, mature, sensible, serious, solemn, thoughtful, wise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | marginal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | borderline; slight |
| Synonyms: | bordering, insignificant, low, minimal, minor, negligible, peripheral, small, on the edge, rimming, verging |
| Antonyms: | central, core, interior, internal |
| Main Entry: | nonessential |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not needed or important |
| Synonyms: | dispensable, excessive, expendable, extraneous, insignificant, peripheral, petty, superfluous, trivial, unimportant, unnecessary, deadwood, excess baggage, inessential |
| Antonyms: | essential, important, necessary, needed |
| Main Entry: | outer |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | external, exposed |
| Synonyms: | alien, beyond, exterior, extraneous, extrinsic, outermost, outlying, outside, outward, over, peripheral, remote, superficial, surface, without, exoteric, outmost |
| Antonyms: | central, inner, interior |
| Main Entry: | outermost |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | outer |
| Synonyms: | beyond, distant, fringe, outlying, outward, peripheral, remote, furthermost, outmost |
| Main Entry: | outlying |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in rural area; remote |
| Synonyms: | afar, backwoods, distant, external, far-flung*, faraway, out-of-the-way*, outer, peripheral, provincial, removed, far-off, off-lying |
| Antonyms: | central, inner, middle |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | out of the way |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | secluded |
| Synonyms: | backwoods, distant, far-flung, faraway, godforsaken, inaccessible, isolated, lonely, obscure, outer, outermost, outlying, peripheral, remote, off the beaten track, sequestered |
| Antonyms: | accessible, handy, near |
| Main Entry: | superficial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without depth, detail |
| Synonyms: | apparent, casual, cosmetic, cursory, desultory, empty, evident, exterior, external, flash, flimsy, frivolous, general, glib, half-baked*, hasty, hurried, ignorant, inattentive, lightweight, ostensible, outward, partial, passing, perfunctory, peripheral, seeming, shallow, shoal, silly, sketchy, skin-deep*, slapdash*, slight, summary, surface, trivial, uncritical, depthless, nodding, on the surface, one-dimensional, quick-fix, smattery, tip of the iceberg, warped |
| Notes: | superficial means not deep or penetrating emotionally or intellectually or of little substance or significance, while superfluous means more than is wanted or is sufficient or rendered unnecessary by superabundance |
| Antonyms: | analytical, careful, deep, detailed, genuine, thorough |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | extraneous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unneeded; irrevelant |
| Synonyms: | accidental, additional, adventitious, beside the point, extra, foreign, immaterial, impertinent, inadmissible, inapplicable, inappropriate, incidental, needless, nonessential, peripheral, pointless, redundant, superfluous, supplementary, unconnected, unessential, unnecessary, unrelated, inapposite, inessential, off the subject |
| Antonyms: | appropriate, basic, essential, integral, necessary, needed, pertinent, relevant |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | border |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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| Main Entry: | position |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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erect, lateral, outside, abaxial, abutting, adaxial, adjacent, adjoining, advance, akimbo, aknee, ambient, anterior, antipodal, apical, apposed, arrayed, at hand, axial, back, bordering, cater, central, centric, chirognostic, circumambient, circumferential, circumjacent, close, coaxial, coextensive, coincident, colinear, collateral, collinear, concentric, confocal, consecutive, conterminous, contiguous, convenient, convergent, converse, coplanar, coterminous, covering, crisscross, crossed, deasil, decussate, deep, detached, discontinuous, discrete, distal, distant, distinct, dorsal, dorsolateral, encircling, enclosed, enclosing, encompassing, enveloping, equidistant, equitant, even, exterior, external, face, far, farther, farthest, first, flanking, flush, fore, forward, fringe, fronting, gardant, grufeling, guardant, halfway, hanging, hindmost, hithermost, immediate, indoors, infradig, inner, innermost, insessorial, interior, intermediate, interposed, intersecting, interspersed, intervening, inverted, kitty, leeward, levitated, local, long, lower, malposed, medial, median, mid, middle, midway, nearby, next, obverse, one, outdoors, outer, outmost, overlying, padmasana, parallel, pendent, peripheral, perpendicular, plumb, point, port, posterior, prone, prostrate, proximal, proximate, quincunx, rear, reclining, rectilinear, recumbent, remote, retral, ringside, rolled, separate, sinistral, situate, situated, square, starboard, stationary, stoss, suburban, suburbicarian, successive, superior, superjacent, supine, surrounding, suspended, topical, topographical, transverse, ulterior, ultimate, uppermost, ventral, windward, zonal
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