additional meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

additional

adj

US, UK /əˈdɪ.ʃə.nəl/

Etymology Learned borrowing from Latin additionalis. By surface analysis, addition + -al.

Supplemental or added to something.

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additional resources
You may be charged an additional fee for late payment.
The hotel provided additional towels on request.
Why this already very fast train should be speeded up still further, when none of the other more easily timed S.R. West of England trains has a single minute pared from its schedule, is unexplained - unless this is a playful dig at the Western Region, most of whose expresses, by reason of additional stops, will be decelerated from the same date.1961 October 23, “The winter timetables of British Railways: Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 593:

Synonyms: accessional, accessive, additional, additionary, adjunctive, ascititious, auxiliary, complemental, extra, further, subsidiary, supplemental, supplementary, suppletory
Antonyms: nonsupplementary
Derived terms: additional accompaniment, additionality, additionally, additional time, nonadditional, superadditional
Hypernyms: extrinsic
Hyponyms: accessory, accompanying, contributory, subservient, acceding

noun

Etymology Learned borrowing from Latin additionalis. By surface analysis, addition + -al.

Something added.

For having received, from my Lord, an Additional, of great Importance; which was, that Owen, of his own Accord, after Examination, should compare the Case of your Majesty, (if you were Excommunicate,) to the Case, of a Prisoner, Condemned at the Barr; which Additional was subscribed by one Witness; but yet I perceived it was spoken aloud, and in the Hearing of others; I presently sent down a Copy thereof […]1614, Francis Bacon, “A Letter to the King touching Peacham’s Cause. January 27. 1614”, in Resuscitatio, or, Bringing into publick light severall pieces of the works […] of Francis Bacon, London: William Lee, published 1657, page 49:
[…] having been well vers’d in British Histories, and a singular lover of Antiquities, [he] made many additionals to the Historie of Cambria published by Dav. Powell […]1692, Anthony à Wood, Athenæ Oxonienses, London: Thomas Bennet, page 248: