subordinate
subordinate is a 11-letter English word with 12 senses as adjective, noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- adjective. Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position.
- adjective. Inferior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance, or the like.
- noun. One who stands in order or rank below another; -- distinguished from a principal.
- transitive verb. To place in a lower order or class; to make or consider as of less value or importance; as, to subordinate one creature to another.
- transitive verb. To make subject; to subject or subdue; as, to subordinate the passions to reason.
- noun. a word that is more specific than a given word
- noun. an assistant subject to the authority or control of another
- verb. make subordinate, dependent, or subservient
"Our wishes have to be subordinated to that of our ruler"
- verb. rank or order as less important or consider of less value
"Art is sometimes subordinated to Science in these schools"
- adjective. (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence
"a subordinate (or dependent) clause functions as a noun or adjective or adverb within a sentence"
- adjective. lower in rank or importance
- adjective. subject or submissive to authority or the control of another
"a subordinate kingdom"
Synonyms
hyponym, subsidiary, underling, subdue, dependent
Common word forms
subordinated, subordinates, subordinately, subordinating, subordinateness
Words from these letters
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