Extra
Extra adjective - Being over what is needed.
Main
Main adjective - Coming before all others in importance.
How words are described
| female | female extra | female main |
Both words in one sentence
- Because of the nature of the Discworld series, characters tends to zigzag in and out of extra/main character.
Source: Ascended Extra / Literature - In the original VN and OVA that MGLN was spun off of, Nanoha's siblings Kyouya and Miyuki were the main characters, and she was just an extra.
- Rebecca Chambers, an extra in the original Resident Evil, became the main character of the prequel, Resident Evil 0.
Source: Ascended Extra / Video Games
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Main and Extra. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/extra/main
Extra & Main. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/extra/main>.
Main or Extra. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/extra/main.
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