Dictionary Entry
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.
11 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 17 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position.
- 2adjective
Inferior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance, or the like.
- 3noun
One who stands in order or rank below another; -- distinguished from a principal.
- 4transitive 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.
- 5transitive verb
To make subject; to subject or subdue; as, to subordinate the passions to reason.
- 6noun
a word that is more specific than a given word
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- 7noun
an assistant subject to the authority or control of another
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- 8verb
make subordinate, dependent, or subservient
"Our wishes have to be subordinated to that of our ruler"
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- 9verb
rank or order as less important or consider of less value
"Art is sometimes subordinated to Science in these schools"
- 10adjective
(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"
Synonyms
- 11adjective
lower in rank or importance
- 12adjective
subject or submissive to authority or the control of another
"a subordinate kingdom"
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