| Main Entry: | fill in |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | act as substitute |
Synonyms: |
deputize, insinuate, interject, interpose, replace, represent, stand in, substract, take the place of, understudy |
| Main Entry: | secondary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | subordinate; less important |
Synonyms: |
accessory, alternate, auxiliary, backup, bush-league, collateral, consequential, contingent, dependent, dinky, extra, inconsiderable, inferior, insignificant, lesser, lower, minor, minor-league, petty, relief, reserve, second, second-rate, small, small-fry, small-time, subject, subservient, subsidiary, substract, supporting, tributary, trivial, under, unimportant |
Antonyms: |
first-class, first-rate, important, primary, superior |
| 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: | subordinate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lesser, supplementary |
Synonyms: |
accessory, adjuvant, ancillary, auxiliary, baser, below par, collateral, contributory, dependent, inferior, insignificant, junior, low, lower, minor, paltry, satellite, second-fiddle, second-string, secondary, smaller, sub, subaltern, subalternate, subject, submissive, subnormal, subservient, subsidiary, substract, tributary, under, underaverage, unequal |
Antonyms: |
chief, important, major, necessary, superior, vital |
| Main Entry: | under |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | secondary |
Synonyms: |
amenable, belonging, collateral, consequent, corollary, dependent, directed, following, governed, in the power of, included, inferior, junior, lesser, low, lower, obedient, obeying, reporting, sub, subject, subjugated, subordinate, subsequent, subservient, subsidiary, substract, subsumed |
Antonyms: |
major, primary |
| 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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