peripheral
About 16.88 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective On the periphery or boundary.
- adjective Beside the point.
- adjective Unimportant.
- adjective Auxiliary.
- adjective Related to or located in the peripheral nervous system.
- noun A peripheral device.
- noun Peripheral vision.
Similar words
incident off-base edge incidental fringy circumferential marginal encircling peripheral device fringe
Often followed by
blood nerve nerves vascular nervous neuropathy to and resistance vision
Word family
peripherally peripherals
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