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Nouns (7)

n. a word that is more specific than a given word

subordinate, subsidiary, underling, foot soldier

n. an assistant subject to the authority or control of another

Verbs (3)

v. rank or order as less important or consider of less value; "Art is sometimes subordinated to Science in these schools"

subordinate, subdue

v. make subordinate, dependent, or subservient; "Our wishes have to be subordinated to that of our ruler"

Adverbs (0)

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Adjectives (6)

subordinate

adj. subject or submissive to authority or the control of another; "a subordinate kingdom"

subordinate

adj. subject or submissive to authority or the control of another; "a subordinate kingdom"

subordinate, low-level

adj. lower in rank or importance

dependent, subordinate

adj. (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"

Fuzzynyms (90)

attendant, attender, tender

n. someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another

aide, auxiliary

n. someone who acts as assistant

menial

n. a domestic servant

chaperon, chaperone

n. one who accompanies and supervises a young woman or gatherings of young people

quick study, sponge

n. someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily; "she soaks up foreign languages like a sponge"

flunky, flunkey, stooge, yes-man

n. a person of unquestioning obedience

lackey, flunky, flunkey

n. a male servant (especially a footman)

crawler, creeper

n. a person who crawls or creeps along the ground

employee

n. a worker who is hired to perform a job

hack, drudge, hacker

n. one who works hard at boring tasks

junior

n. the younger of two persons; "she is two years my junior"

slave

n. someone entirely dominated by some influence or person; "a slave to fashion"; "a slave to cocaine"; "his mother was his abject slave"

slave

n. someone who works as hard as a slave

national, subject

n. a person who owes allegiance to that nation; "a monarch has a duty to his subjects"

Liege, Luik

n. city in eastern Belgium; largest French-speaking city in Belgium

adjunct

n. a person who is an assistant or subordinate to another

charwoman, char, cleaning woman, cleaning lady, woman

n. a human female employed to do housework; "the char will clean the carpet"; "I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write"

woman

n. a female person who plays a significant role (wife or mistress or girlfriend) in the life of a particular man; "he was faithful to his woman"

attendant, attender, attendee, meeter

n. a person who is present and participates in a meeting; "he was a regular attender at department meetings"; "the gathering satisfied both organizers and attendees"

woman, adult female

n. an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted"

man, adult male

n. an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus"

workman, workingman, working man, working person

n. an employee who performs manual or industrial labor

worker

n. a person who works at a specific occupation; "he is a good worker"

hired hand, hand, hired man

n. a hired laborer on a farm or ranch; "the hired hand fixed the railing"; "a ranch hand"

agent, federal agent

n. any agent or representative of a federal agency or bureau

mouthpiece, mouth

n. a spokesperson (as a lawyer)

turn down

v. take a downward direction; "The economy finally turned down after a long boom"

mortify

v. practice self-denial of one's body and appetites

check, chink

v. make cracks or chinks in; "The heat checked the paint"

soothe

v. cause to feel better; "the medicine soothes the pain of the inflammation"

relieve, alleviate, palliate, assuage

v. provide physical relief, as from pain; "This pill will relieve your headaches"

calm, calm down, cool off, chill out, simmer down, settle down, cool it

v. become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation; "After the fight both men need to cool off."; "It took a while after the baby was born for things to settle down again."

sedate, calm, tranquilize, tranquillize, tranquillise

v. cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to; "The patient must be sedated before the operation"

mollify

v. make less rigid or softer

tone

v. change the color or tone of; "tone a negative"

temper, harden

v. harden by reheating and cooling in oil; "temper steel"

collateral

adj. accompany, concomitant; "collateral target damage from a bombing run"

attendant

adj. being present (at meeting or event etc.) "attendant members of the congreation"

accessory, adjunct, ancillary, adjuvant, appurtenant, auxiliary

adj. furnishing added support; "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxiliary to each other"

Synonyms (11)

interdependent, mutualist, mutually beneficial

adj. mutually dependent

myrmecophilous

adj. living symbiotically with ants

parasitic, parasitical

adj. relating to or caused by parasites; "parasitic infection"

dependent on, reliant on

adj. determined by conditions or circumstances not yet established; "arms sales contingent on the approval of congress"

symbiotic

adj. used of organisms (especially of different species) living together but not necessarily in a relation beneficial to each

underage

adj. dependent by virtue of youth

unfree

adj. hampered and not free; not able to act at will

Antonyms (23)

superior, higher-up, superordinate

n. one of greater rank or station or quality

awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse

v. cause to become awake or conscious; "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM."

insubordinate

adj. not submissive to authority; "a history of insubordinate behavior"; "insubordinate boys"

dominant

adj. exercising influence or control; "television plays a dominant role in molding public opinion"; "the dominant partner in the marriage"

sovereign, supreme

adj. greatest in status or authority or power; "a supreme tribunal"

superior

adj. of or characteristic of high rank or importance; "a superior ruler"

superior

adj. (sometimes followed by `to') not subject to or influenced by; "overcome by a superior opponent"; "trust magnates who felt themselves superior to law"

primary

adj. of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary; "primary goals"; "a primary effect"; "primary sources"; "a primary interest"

independent, main(a)

adj. (of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence; "the main (or independent) clause in a complex sentence has at least a subject and a verb"

autonomous

adj. existing as an independent entity; "the partitioning of India created two separate and autonomous jute economies"

autonomous, self-directed, self-reliant

adj. (of persons) free from external control and constraint in e.g. action and judgment

separate

adj. independent; not united or joint; "a problem consisting of two separate issues"; "they went their separate ways"; "formed a separate church"

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