peripheral
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6.5
- adjective
- /pəˈrɪfərəl/
:
secundario
- As a cultural institution, Neighborhood Centre remained peripheral to the neighborhood as a whole.
- peripheral disease
- peripheral vascular
- peripheral capitalism
So this was not peripheral to the Nazi ambitions, but central.
- So this was not peripheral to the Nazi ambitions, but central.
- However, there are also sort of peripheral players, right?
- I'm not good at watering my peripheral relationships.
- You've got to have some wide sense of not so deep but peripheral information.
- You know, you, your relationships are sort of peripheral.
- But there are people out there who don't express metabolic disease as peripheral obesity, and that's fat you can see on the outside.
- It's like a memory holding the peripheral meanings that swirl around it, elevated by the structure of its central concerns, identified or not.
- We and I now I know it that I can hear somebody peripheral, you know, and I know.
- But what we see is another example of a vicious cycle where the peripheral biological aspects of things aren't great.
Examples
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Nowadays, memory plays a peripheral role in schooling, chiefly in the study of foreign languages.
Academic text (1992) -
However, there are also sort of peripheral players, right?
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It's peripheral as well as central.
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Peripheral matters are not our concern.
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Even democracy is but an abstract issue and a peripheral concern to the majority.
Academic text (1990) -
Chicago's Filipino immigrants remained peripheral, not because of their ethnicity, but because of their race.
Academic text (1990) -
The teacher encouraged students to focus on the main topics, ignoring the peripheral details that would not be on the exam.
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In the presentation, I intentionally left out peripheral information to keep the audience's attention on the main argument.
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The discussions about the project included many peripheral issues, but the team prioritized the core objectives.
Synonyms
11
4.7
At the edge of something, for example land by a river
7
8.1
Only slightly related to the main topic
Not the main or most important thing
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
1
4.2
The nerves outside the brain and spinal cord that send messages between the brain and other body parts
- Specialized
1
4.7
An electronic machine like a printer that connects to a computer to let you enter, see or save information
- Specialized
A device that connects to a computer, like a mouse or printer, but is not inside it
How Important
528
2.1
∞
1.0
6
4.1
16
6.5
54
1.9
121
3.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Peripheral comes from the Greek peri- 'around' and is like periphery, meaning 'around the centre'. So if something is peripheral to a topic, it is around the main point and not as important.