Main entry: secondary
Definition: being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate
Usage: the stone will be hauled to a secondary crusher; a secondary source; a secondary issue; secondary streams
Antonyms: primary
Definition: of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary
Antonyms: unusefulness, uselessness, inutility
Definition: the quality of having no practical use
Antonyms: distributary
Definition: a branch of a river that flows away from the main stream and does not rejoin it
Definition: of leaves etc; growing in pairs on either side of a stem
Definition: in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child
Antonyms: direct
Definition: direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short
Antonyms: direct
Definition: straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action
Main entry: secondary
Definition: belonging to a lower class or rank
Antonyms: dominant
Definition: exercising influence or control
Antonyms: insubordinate
Definition: not submissive to authority
Main entry: secondary
Definition: depending on or incidental to what is original or primary
Usage: a secondary infection
Antonyms: basic
Definition: pertaining to or constituting a base or basis
Main entry: secondary
Definition: not of major importance
Usage: played a secondary role in world events
Antonyms: major
Definition: greater in number or size or amount
Antonyms: major
Definition: greater in scope or effect
Antonyms: major
Definition: of full legal age
Antonyms: major
Definition: of a scale or mode
Antonyms: major
Definition: of the field of academic study in which one concentrates or specializes
Antonyms: major
Definition: of greater importance or stature or rank
Antonyms: major
Definition: of greater seriousness or danger
Main entry: junior-grade, lower-ranking, lowly, subaltern, secondary, petty
Definition: inferior in rank or status
Usage: the junior faculty; a lowly corporal; petty officialdom; a subordinate functionary
Antonyms: senior
Definition: older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service