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collateral - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | collateral |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | indirect, secondary |
| Synonyms: | accessory, accompanying, ancillary, attendant, auxiliary, circuitous, coincident, complementary, concomitant, concurrent, coordinate, corresponding, corroborative, dependent, incident, lateral, parallel, related, roundabout, satellite, side, sub, subordinate, subservient, subsidiary, supporting, tributary, under, added, adjunctive, adjuvant, appurtenant, confirmatory, not lineal |
| Antonyms: | chief, direct, main, primary, principal |
| Main Entry: | collateral |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | monetary deposit |
| Synonyms: | assurance, bond, endorsement, guarantee, pledge, promise, security, surety, warrant, wealth |
| Main Entry: | ancillary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extra; supplementary |
| Synonyms: | accessory, accompanying, additional, attendant, coincident, collateral, concomitant, incident, satellite, secondary, subordinate, subservient, adjuvant, appurtenant, attending, contributory, subsidary |
| Antonyms: | necessary, needed |
| Main Entry: | bail |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | money for assurance |
| Synonyms: | bond, collateral, guarantee, pawn, pledge, security, surety, warrant, warranty, recognizance |
| Notes: | to bail is to remove water from a boat by filling a container and emptying it over the side; to bale is wrap or make into bundles |
| Main Entry: | circuitous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | going around, indirect |
| Synonyms: | back road, circular, collateral, complicated, devious, labyrinthine, meandering, oblique, rambling, roundabout, tortuous, ambagious, by way of, long way, long way around, winding around |
| Antonyms: | direct, straight, in line |
| Main Entry: | coincident |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concurring, happening together |
| Synonyms: | ancillary, attendant, collateral, concomitant, consonant, contemporary, coordinate, correspondent, incident, satellite, simultaneous, synchronous, attending, coinciding, contemporaneous |
| Main Entry: | concomitant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | contributing, accompanying |
| Synonyms: | accessory, agreeing, ancillary, attendant, belonging, coeval, coincident, coincidental, collateral, complementary, concurrent, connected, contemporary, coordinate, corollary, fellow, incident, joint, satellite, synchronous, adjuvant, associated with, associative, attending, coefficient, coetaneous, coexistent, concordant, conjoined, conjoined with, contemporaneous, coterminous, coupled with, in tempo, in time, isochronal, isochronous, synchronal, synergetic, synergistic |
| Antonyms: | accidental, chance, unrelated |
| Main Entry: | funds |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cash reserve |
| Synonyms: | affluence, assets, backing, bankroll, belongings, bread*, budget, capital, collateral, currency, dough*, earnings, finance, hard cash*, kitty*, lucre, means, money, nest egg*, nut*, petty cash, pork barrel*, proceeds, property, resources, revenue, savings, scratch*, store*, stuff*, substance, treasure, wealth, wherewithal*, accounts receivable, fluid assets, money in the bank, money on hand, possessions, profits, ready money, securities, specie, stakes, winnings |
| Antonyms: | debt |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | guarantee |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pledge, promise |
| Synonyms: | agreement, assurance, bail, bargain, bond, certainty, certificate, charter, collateral, contract, covenant, deposit, earnest, guaranty, insurance, lock, oath, pawn, pipe, security, sure thing*, surety, testament, token, undertaking, vow, warrant, warranty, word, word of honor, attestation, certification, gage, recognizance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | indirect |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | roundabout; unintended |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, ancillary, circuitous, circular, collateral, complicated, contingent, crooked, devious, discursive, duplicitous, erratic, eventual, implied, incidental, long, long-winded*, meandering, oblique, obscure, out-of-the-way, rambling, secondary, serpentine*, sinister, sinuous, sneaky, subsidiary, tortuous, underhand, vagrant, wandering, winding, zigzag, circumlocutory, long way home, long-drawn-out, periphrastic, sidelong, snaking, sneaking, twisting |
| Antonyms: | direct, straight, straightforward |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | junk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | odds and ends; garbage |
| Synonyms: | clutter, collateral, debris, filth, hogwash*, litter, miscellany, offal, refuse, rubbish, rubble, rummage, salvage, scrap, trash, waste |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | resources |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | money, possessions, natural resources |
| Synonyms: | assets, backing, bankroll, basics, belongings, budget, capital, collateral, effects, funds, holdings, income, kitty*, means, nest egg*, nut*, property, revenue, riches, savings, sock*, stuff, supplies, ways and means*, wealth, wherewithal*, ace in hole, material goods, reserves, the goods |
| Antonyms: | debt |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | roundabout |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | indirect |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, circuitous, circular, collateral, deviating, devious, discursive, evasive, meandering, oblique, tortuous, circumlocutory, obliquitous, periphrastic, taking the long way |
| Antonyms: | direct, honest, straightforward |
| Main Entry: | similar |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very much alike |
| Synonyms: | agnate, akin, allied, analogous, coincident, coincidental, collateral, companion, comparable, complementary, congruent, congruous, consonant, corresponding, homogeneous, identical, in agreement, kin, kindred, like, matching, parallel, reciprocal, related, resembling, same, twin, uniform, coinciding, consubstantial, correlative, much the same |
| Antonyms: | alien, different, dissimilar, opposite, unlike, unalike |
| Main Entry: | subject |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | at the mercy of; answerable |
| Synonyms: | accountable, apt, at one's feet, bound by, captive, collateral, conditional, contingent, controlled, dependent, directed, disposed, enslaved, exposed, governed, in danger of, inferior, liable, likely, obedient, open, prone, provisional, ruled, satellite, secondary, sensitive, servile, slavish, sub*, subaltern, subjugated, submissive, subordinate, subservient, substract, susceptible, tentative, tributary, under, vulnerable |
| Antonyms: | master |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | subordinate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lesser, supplementary |
| Synonyms: | accessory, ancillary, auxiliary, below par, collateral, dependent, inferior, insignificant, junior, low, lower, minor, paltry, satellite, secondary, smaller, sub, subaltern, subject, submissive, subservient, subsidiary, tributary, under, unequal, adjuvant, baser, contributory, second-fiddle, second-string, subalternate, subnormal, substract, underaverage |
| Antonyms: | chief, important, major, necessary, superior, vital |
| Main Entry: | subsidiary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | secondary, helpful |
| Synonyms: | accessory, ancillary, assistant, assisting, auxiliary, backup, branch, collateral, cooperative, lesser, minor, serviceable, subject, subordinate, subservient, supplemental, supplementary, useful, adjuvant, aiding, appurtenant, contributory, tributory |
| Antonyms: | chief, important, necessary |
| Main Entry: | underwrite |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | endorse, insure |
| Synonyms: | accede, agree to, angel*, approve, back, bankroll*, collateral, consent, countersign, endow, finance, float, fund, guarantee, help, initial, okay*, pay, provide, sanction, seal, secure, sign, sponsor, stake, subscribe, subsidize, support, provide financing |
| Antonyms: | disapprove, invalidate, refuse, reject |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | corroborative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | confirmatory |
| Synonyms: | collateral, supporting |
| Main Entry: | litter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mess, debris |
| Synonyms: | clutter, collateral, confusion, detritus, disarray, disorder, garbage, hash, hodgepodge, jumble, jungle, junk, mishmash, muck, muddle, offal, rash, refuse, rubbish, rummage, scattering, scramble, shuffle, trash, waste, untidiness |
| Antonyms: | cleanliness, sterility |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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