| Main Entry: | subject |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | at the mercy of; answerable |
Synonyms: |
accountable, apt, at one's feet, bound by, captive, collateral, conditional, contingent, controlled, dependent, directed, disposed, enslaved, exposed, governed, in danger of, inferior, liable, likely, obedient, open, prone, provisional, ruled, satellite, secondary, sensitive, servile, slavish, sub, subaltern, subjugated, submissive, subordinate, subservient, substract, susceptible, tentative, tributary, under, vulnerable |
Antonyms: |
master |
| Main Entry: | subject |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | issue, matter |
Synonyms: |
affair, argument, business, case, chapter, class, core, course, discussion, field of reference, gist, head, idea, item, material, matter at hand, meat*, motif, motion, motive, object, point, principal object, problem, proposal, question, resolution, study, subject matter, substance, text, theme, theorem, thesis, thought, topic |
| Main Entry: | subject |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | one under authority of another |
Synonyms: |
case, client, customer, dependent, guinea pig, liege, national, patient, serf, subordinate, vassal |
Antonyms: |
master |
| Main Entry: | subject |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
subject, a slave to, anaclitic, at one's beck and call, at the feet of, at the mercy of, chicken-pecked, constrained, dependent, downtrodden, enslaved, feudal, feudatory, henpecked, in harness, in leading strings, in subjection to, in the clutches of, in the hands of, in the power of, led by the nose, liable, liberticidal, mancipate, on the hip, overborne, overwhelmed, parasitical, prochnial, procrustean, stipendiary, subordinate, sycophantic, the plaything of, the puppet of, the sport of, under control, under one's command, under one's orders, under one's thumb, under the lash, uxorious
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| Main Entry: | affair |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | matter or business to be taken care of; happening activity |
Synonyms: |
assignment, avocation, calling, case, circumstance, concern, duty, employment, episode, event, hap, happening, incident, interest, job, mission, obligation, occupation, occurrence, office function, proceeding, profession, project, province, pursuit, question, realm, responsibility, subject, task, thing*, topic, transaction, undertaking |
| Main Entry: | amenable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | able to be judged; responsible |
Synonyms: |
accountable, answerable, chargeable, liable, subject |
Antonyms: |
irresponsible, not responsible, unaccountable, unanswerable, unchargeable |
| Main Entry: | answerable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | responsible |
Synonyms: |
accountable, amenable, bound, chargeable, compelled, constrained, liable, obligated, obliged, subject, to blame |
Antonyms: |
irrefutable, unaccountable, unprovable |
| Main Entry: | below |
| Part of Speech: | preposition |
| Definition: | less than; beneath |
Synonyms: |
inferior, lesser, lower, subject, subordinate, unworthy |
Antonyms: |
above, more, over |
| Main Entry: | beneath |
| Part of Speech: | preposition |
| Definition: | inferior |
Synonyms: |
below, less than, lesser, lower than, subject, subordinate, unbefitting, under, underneath, unworthy of |
Antonyms: |
above, higher, over, superior |
| Main Entry: | business |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | personal concern |
Synonyms: |
affair, assignment, beeswax, carrying on, duty, function, goings-on, hanky-panky, happening, interest, issue, lookout, matter, palaver, point, problem, question, responsibility, subject, task, topic |
| Notes: | the industry is the movie business and the business is the television industry |