adjuvant
Plural: adjuvants
Noun
- A substance that enhances another's effect; an assistant.
- an additive that enhances the effectiveness of medical treatment
- Someone or (more commonly) something that assists, facilitates, or helps; an aid, an assistant, a helper.
- An additive (often a separate product) that enhances the efficacy of a pesticide, but has little or no pesticidal effect itself.
- Someone or (more commonly) something that assists, facilitates, or helps; an aid, an assistant, a helper.
- A substance enhancing the immune response to an antigen.
- Someone or (more commonly) something that assists, facilitates, or helps; an aid, an assistant, a helper.
- A form of therapy or treatment which is additional or supplementary to another, or which enhances the effectiveness of another.
- Someone or (more commonly) something that assists, facilitates, or helps; an aid, an assistant, a helper.
- An additive which aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient of a drug.
Adjective Satellite
- furnishing added support
- "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"
- enhancing the action of a medical treatment
- "the adjuvant action of certain bacteria"
Adj
- Providing assistance or help; assistive, facilitative, helpful.
- Enhancing the immune response to an antigen; also, containing a substance having such an effect.
- Of a form of therapy or treatment: additional, supplementary; specifically (oncology), of a cancer treatment: given after removal of a primary tumour.
Examples
- A blank tile is the perfect adjuvant for turning a mediocre rack into a bingo.
Origin / Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin adiuvant-, adjuvant- + English -ant (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘exhibiting a condition or process’; and forming agent nouns). Adiuvant-, adjuvant- are oblique stems of adiuvāns, adjuvāns (“assisting, helping”), the present active participle of adiuvō (“to assist, help; to be useful; etc.”), from ad- (“prefix meaning ‘to; toward’”) + iuvō (“to aid, help; to save”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ewH- (“to assist, help; to save”)).
Adjective sense 3 (“of a form of therapy or treatment: additional, supplementary”) and noun sense 1.4 (“additive which aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient of a drug”) are possibly derived from French adjuvant (adjective, noun).
Synonyms
accessory, adjunct, ancillary, appurtenant, auxiliary, accessory#Noun, assisting#Adjective, attendant#Noun, auxiliary#Adjective, complementary#Adjective, contributory#Adjective, helping#Adjective, supporting#Adjective
Scrabble Score: 19
adjuvant: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordadjuvant: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
adjuvant: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary