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satellite - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | satellite |
| Part of Speech: | noun1 |
| Definition: | small planet that revolves around a larger one |
| Synonyms: | moon, asteroid, planetoid |
| Main Entry: | satellite |
| Part of Speech: | noun2 |
| Definition: | smaller country dependent upon a larger one |
| Synonyms: | dependency, buffer state, dependent state, protectorate, puppet government, satellite state |
| 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: | cohort |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | partner in activity |
| Synonyms: | accomplice, adherent, aide, ally, assistant, associate, companion, company, comrade, contingent, disciple, follower, friend, hand, legion, mate, pal, partisan, regiment, satellite, sidekick, stall, supporter, confrere, consociate, myrmidon |
| Antonyms: | enemy, opponent |
| 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: | 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: | colony |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | community |
| Synonyms: | clearing, dependency, dominion, mandate, offshoot, outpost, possession, province, satellite, settlement, swarm, territory, antecedents, new land, protectorate, subject state |
| 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: | disciple |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | believer, follower |
| Synonyms: | adherent, apostle, attendant, booster, buff, bug*, cohort, convert, devotee, enthusiast, fan, fanatic, fiend, freak, groupie, hound*, junkie*, learner, nut*, partisan, proselyte, pupil, satellite, student, supporter, votary, witness, zealot, catechumen, rooter, sectary, sectator |
| Antonyms: | god |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | follower |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who believes or has great interest |
| Synonyms: | addict, adherent, admirer, advocate, apostle, attendant, backer, believer, buff, client, cohort, companion, convert, copycat, devotee, disciple, fan, freak*, habitué, hanger-on*, helper, imitator, lackey*, member, minion, parasite, participant, partisan, patron, promoter, proselyte, protégé, pupil, representative, satellite, servant, sidekick, stooge*, supporter, sycophant, toady*, vassal, votary, worshiper, zealot, bootlicker, fancier, sectary |
| Antonyms: | leader |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inferior |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person of lesser rank, importance |
| Synonyms: | adherent, attendant, auxiliary, deputy, disciple, follower, hanger-on, hireling, junior, menial, minion, minor, peon, satellite, second banana*, subaltern, subject, subordinate, sycophant, underling |
| Antonyms: | superior |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | moon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | Earth' s satellite |
| Synonyms: | celestial body, crescent, heavenly body, pumpkin*, satellite, full moon, half-moon, new moon, old moon, orb of night, planetoid, quarter-moon |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | partisan |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person devoted to another or cause |
| Synonyms: | accessory, adherent, backer, champion, cohort, defender, devotee, disciple, follower, satellite, stalwart, supporter, sycophant, sympathizer, votary, zealot, upholder |
| Main Entry: | pupil |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is learning something |
| Synonyms: | adherent, attendant, beginner, bookworm*, brain*, disciple, follower, junior, learner, neophyte, novice, satellite, scholar, senior, student, tenderfoot*, undergraduate, catechumen, first-year student, graduate student, schoolboy/ girl, sophomore |
| Antonyms: | professor, teacher |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sectarian |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is narrow-minded |
| Synonyms: | adherent, bigot, cohort, disciple, dissenter, dissident, extremist, fanatic, heretic, maverick, nonconformist, partisan, radical, rebel, revolutionary, satellite, supporter, zealot, dogmatist, misbeliever, schismatic, separatist, true believer |
| Notes: | sectarian means of or relating to or characteristic of a sect or sects, while secular means not specifically relating to religion or to a religious body or not religious or spiritual in nature |
| Antonyms: | liberal, nonsectarian |
| Main Entry: | spacecraft |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spaceship |
| Synonyms: | UFO, flying saucer, rocket, rocket ship, satellite, shuttle, space capsule, space probe, space shuttle, unidentified flying object |
| 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: | tributary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | secondary; branch |
| Synonyms: | accessory, dependent, minor, satellite, shoot, side, sub, subject, subordinate, under, feeding |
| Antonyms: | original, primary, source |
| Main Entry: | client state |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | country that is dependent upon a more powerful country |
| Synonyms: | dependency, satellite, dependent state, puppet government, satellite state |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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