The words of the year 2010 in Denmark are "ash cloud", "Peripheral Denmark", "vuvuzela" and "WikiLeaks".
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Peripheral
//pəˈɹɪf(ə)ɹ(ə)l//
Synonyms for "peripheral" (64 found)
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Strong matches (19)
Related words (32)
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13 entriesTranslations
64 translations across 23 languages.
Bulgarian
4 entries- второстепенен adj (unimportant)
- граничен adj (on the periphery or boundary)
- маловажен adj (unimportant)
- периферен adj (on the periphery or boundary)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 周边的 adj (beside the point)
- 次要的 adj (unimportant)
- 边缘的 adj (on the periphery or boundary)
Dutch
1 entries- perifeer adj (on the periphery or boundary)
Finnish
4 entries- lisä adj (auxiliary)
- oheis adj (auxiliary)
- reuna adj (on the periphery or boundary)
- toisarvoinen adj (beside the point)
French
2 entries- périphérique adj (on the periphery or boundary)
- périphérique adj (unimportant)
Galician
1 entries- periférico adj (on the periphery or boundary)
Georgian
4 entries- დამატებითი adj (beside the point)
- დამხმარე adj (auxiliary)
- მეორეხარისხოვანი adj (unimportant)
- პერიფერიული adj (on the periphery or boundary)
German
2 entries- peripher adj (on the periphery or boundary)
- umliegend adj (on the periphery or boundary)
Greek
4 entries- επουσιώδης adj (unimportant)
- περιφερειακός adj (on the periphery or boundary)
- περιφερειακός adj (beside the point)
- περιφερειακός adj (auxiliary)
Hebrew
1 entries- היקפי adj (on the periphery or boundary)
Hungarian
4 entries- periferikus adj (on the periphery or boundary)
- periferikus adj (beside the point)
- periferikus adj (unimportant)
- periferiális adj (on the periphery or boundary)
Indonesian
1 entries- perifer adj (on the periphery or boundary)
Italian
3 entries- ausiliario adj (auxiliary)
- periferico adj (on the periphery or boundary)
- secondario adj (unimportant)
Māori
1 entries- mōwaho adj (on the periphery or boundary)
Norwegian
3 entries- perifer adj (beside the point)
- perifer adj (unimportant)
- perifer adj (auxiliary)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- perifer adj (on the periphery or boundary)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- perifer adj (on the periphery or boundary)
Portuguese
2 entries- periférico adj (on the periphery or boundary)
- secundário adj (unimportant)
Romanian
4 entries- auxiliar adj (auxiliary)
- neimportant adj (unimportant)
- periferic adj (on the periphery or boundary)
- secundar adj (unimportant)
Russian
4 entries- вспомога́тельный adj (auxiliary)
- второстепе́нный adj (unimportant)
- окружно́й adj (on the periphery or boundary)
- перифери́йный adj (on the periphery or boundary)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- iomallach adj (on the periphery or boundary)
Spanish
3 entries- periférico adj (on the periphery or boundary)
- periférico adj (beside the point)
- periférico adj (auxiliary)
Swedish
2 entries- perifer adj (on the periphery or boundary)
- yttre adj (on the periphery or boundary)
Sample sentences
19 total sentences available.
Doing exercises to strengthen one's peripheral vision is recommended for those interested in learning how to speed read.
Source: tatoeba (3332771)
I want to stress again that human rights are not peripheral to the foreign policy of the United States. Our pursuit of human rights is part of a broad effort to use our great power and our tremendous influence in the service of creating a better world, a world in which human beings can live in peace, in freedom, and with their basic needs adequately met.
Source: tatoeba (5797058)
Tourism has the potential to contribute towards employment and economic growth, as well as to development in rural, peripheral or less-developed areas.
Source: tatoeba (7023253)
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