subject

subject is a 7-letter English word with 34 senses as adjective, noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 23 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 23 · 34 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
2. adjective. Placed under the power of another; specifically (International Law), owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state; as, Jamaica is subject to Great Britain.
3. adjective. Exposed; liable; prone; disposed; as, a country subject to extreme heat; men subject to temptation.
4. adjective. Obedient; submissive.
5. adjective. That which is placed under the authority, dominion, control, or influence of something else.
6. adjective. Specifically: One who is under the authority of a ruler and is governed by his laws; one who owes allegiance to a sovereign or a sovereign state; as, a subject of Queen Victoria; a British subject; a subject of the United States.
7. adjective. That which is subjected, or submitted to, any physical operation or process; specifically (Anat.), a dead body used for the purpose of dissection.
8. adjective. That which is brought under thought or examination; that which is taken up for discussion, or concerning which anything is said or done.
9. adjective. The person who is treated of; the hero of a piece; the chief character.
10. adjective. That of which anything is affirmed or predicated; the theme of a proposition or discourse; that which is spoken of; as, the nominative case is the subject of the verb.
11. adjective. That in which any quality, attribute, or relation, whether spiritual or material, inheres, or to which any of these appertain; substance; substratum.
12. adjective. Hence, that substance or being which is conscious of its own operations; the mind; the thinking agent or principal; the ego. Cf. Object, n., 2.
13. noun. The principal theme, or leading thought or phrase, on which a composition or a movement is based.
14. noun. The incident, scene, figure, group, etc., which it is the aim of the artist to represent.
15. transitive verb. To bring under control, power, or dominion; to make subject; to subordinate; to subdue.
16. transitive verb. To expose; to make obnoxious or liable; as, credulity subjects a person to impositions.
17. transitive verb. To submit; to make accountable.
18. transitive verb. To make subservient.
19. transitive verb. To cause to undergo; as, to subject a substance to a white heat; to subject a person to a rigid test.
20. noun. something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation

    "a moving picture of a train is more dramatic than a still picture of the same subject"

    Synonyms: content

21. noun. some situation or event that is thought about

    "he kept drifting off the topic"

    "he had been thinking about the subject for several years"

    Synonyms: issue, matter, topic

22. noun. a branch of knowledge

    "in what discipline is his doctorate?"

    "teachers should be well trained in their subject"

    Synonyms: bailiwick, discipline, field, study

23. noun. (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated
24. noun. (logic) the first term of a proposition
25. noun. the subject matter of a conversation or discussion

    "he didn't want to discuss that subject"

    "it was a very sensitive topic"

    Synonyms: theme, topic

26. noun. a person who owes allegiance to that nation

    "a monarch has a duty to his subjects"

    Synonyms: national

27. noun. a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation

    "the subjects for this investigation were selected randomly"

    "the cases that we studied were drawn from two different communities"

    Synonyms: case

28. verb. refer for judgment or consideration

    "The lawyers submitted the material to the court"

    Synonyms: submit

29. verb. make accountable for

    "He did not want to subject himself to the judgments of his superiors"

30. verb. cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to

    "He subjected me to his awful poetry"

    "The sergeant subjected the new recruits to many drills"

31. verb. make subservient; force to submit or subdue

    Synonyms: subjugate

32. adjective. likely to be affected by something

    "the bond is subject to taxation"

    "he is subject to fits of depression"

33. adjective. being under the power or sovereignty of another or others

    "subject peoples"

    "a dependent prince"

    Synonyms: dependent

34. adjective. possibly accepting or permitting

    "a passage capable of misinterpretation"

    "open to interpretation"

    Synonyms: capable, open

Synonyms

content, issue, matter, topic, bailiwick, discipline, field, study, theme, national, case, submit, subjugate, dependent, capable, open

Common word forms

subjects, subjected, subjecting, subjectable, subjectless, subjectness

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