Adjective: secondary
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more secondary |
| Superlative | most secondary |
Sample Sentences
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the work of secondary hands
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secondary cleavage
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Bright's disease is often secondary to scarlet fever.
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the secondary symptoms of syphilis
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a secondary issue
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the problem of sexual equality became even more secondary than before in the eyes of the kibbutz and of its women members. [1992, Deborah Bernstein, Pioneers and Homemakers: Jewish Women in Pre-state Israel, page 227:]
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Yellow is a secondary light color, though a primary CMYK color.
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With the exception of a secondary loss in Dimecoenia, larvae of Ephydrini have prominent, ventral prolegs that bear crochets. [2016 May 27, Wayne M. Matthis, Luciane Marinoni, “Revision of Ephydrini Zetterstedt (Diptera: Ephydridae) from the Americas south of the United States”, in Zootaxa, volume 4116, number 1, →DOI:]
Adjectives inflected like secondary
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle English secundarie, from Latin secundārius (“of the second class or quality”), from secundus (whence the English second) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary), equivalent to second + -ary; compare the French secondaire, the Italian secondario, the Occitan secundari, the Portuguese secundario, and the Spanish secundario. See: Latin Adjectives '
secundārius', French Adjectives '
secondaire', Italian Adjectives '
secondario', Portuguese Adjectives '
secundario', Spanish Adjectives '
secundario'.