subordinate

  • (a) lower in rank or importance low-level,
  • (a) subject or submissive to authority or the control of another
    • a subordinate kingdom
  • (a) (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
    dependent,

Nouns

Verbs

  • (v) rank or order as less important or consider of less value
    • Art is sometimes subordinated to Science in these schools
  • (v) make subordinate, dependent, or subservient
    • Our wishes have to be subordinated to that of our ruler
    subdue,

Synonyms

subsidiary underling foot soldier low-level hyponym subordinate word subdue dependent

Antonyms

dominant insubordinate main independent

See also

inferior submissive low-level

Words of close approximity

subordinate clause subordinate conjunction subordinateness subordinate word