Word Meanings - SUBORDINATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position. The several kinds and subordinate species of each are easily distinguished. Woodward. 2. Inferior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance, or the like. It was

Additional info about word: SUBORDINATE

1. Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position. The several kinds and subordinate species of each are easily distinguished. Woodward. 2. Inferior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance, or the like. It was subordinate, not enslaved, to the understanding. South.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SUBORDINATE)

• Minister
• Servant
• officer
• delegate
• official
• ambassador
• subordinate
• ecclesiastic
• clergyman
• priest
• parson
• divine
• preacher
• pastor
• shepherd
• reverend
• curate
• vicar
• Particular
• Local
• specific
• detailed
• partial
• special
• fastidious
• minute
• scrupulous
• careful
• accurate
• exact
• circumstantial
• precise
• delicate
• nice
• Satellite
• Attendant
• follower
• shadow
• associate
• hanger-on
• second
• Secondary
• Subordinate
• inferior
• minor
• unimportant
• resultant
• induced
• Subject
• subservient
• exposed
• liable
• prone
• disposed
• obnoxious
• amenable

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SUBORDINATE)

• Lead
• rule
• command
• exact

Related words: (words related to SUBORDINATE)

• SECOND
  1. Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occuring again; another; other. And he slept and dreamed the second time. Gen. xli. 5. 2. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity,
• MINOR
  Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third. Asia Minor , the Lesser Asia; that part of Asia which lies between the Euxine, or Black Sea, on the north, and the Mediterranean on the south. -- Minor mode , that mode,
• PRIESTLIKE
  Priestly. B. Jonson.
• SPECIFICNESS
  The quality or state of being specific.
• DISPOSEMENT
  Disposal. Goodwin.
• ACCURATENESS
  The state or quality of being accurate; accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision.
• OBNOXIOUS
  1. Subject; liable; exposed; answerable; amenable; -- with to. The writings of lawyers, which are tied obnoxious to their particular laws. Bacon. Esteeming it more honorable to live on the public than to be obnoxious to any private purse. Milton.
• INDUCER
  One who, or that which, induces or incites.
• DISPOSURE
  1. The act of disposing; power to dispose of; disposal; direction. Give up My estate to his disposure. Massinger. 2. Disposition; arrangement; position; posture. In a kind of warlike disposure. Sir H. Wotton.
• SHADOWY
  1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon
• EXACTOR
  One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor.
• SUBJECTION
  1. The act of subjecting, or of bringing under the dominion of another; the act of subduing. The conquest of the kingdom, and subjection of the rebels. Sir M. Hale. 2. The state of being subject, or under the power, control, and government
• SUBJECTIST
  One skilled in subjective philosophy; a subjectivist.
• EXACTING
  Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe. "A temper so exacting." T. Arnold -- Ex*act"ing*ly, adv. -- Ex*act"ing*ness, n.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• SUBJECTNESS
  Quality of being subject.
• DISPOSITED
  Disposed. Glanvill.
• INFERIORLY
  In an inferior manner, or on the inferior part.
• PASTORALLY
  1. In a pastoral or rural manner. 2. In the manner of a pastor.
• COMMANDING
  1. Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer. 2. Fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence. 3. Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position. Syn.
• FORESHADOW
  To shadow or typi Dryden.
• UNVICAR
  To deprive of the position or office a vicar. Strype.
• INEXACTLY
  In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• INEXACT
  Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate.
• INSUBORDINATE
  Not submitting to authority; disobedient; rebellious; mutinous