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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | secondary person |
| Synonyms: | assistant, inferior, subordinate |
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| 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: | subordinate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person that serves another |
| Synonyms: | aide, assistant, attendant, dependent, deputy, flunky, gofer, helper, inferior, junior, peon, poor relation, scrub, second, second fiddle, second string, serf, servant, slave, subaltern, third string, underling |
| Antonyms: | boss, chief, leader, major, manager, master, superior |
| Main Entry: | minor-league |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | minor |
| Synonyms: | accessory, below the mark, bush-league, casual, dependent, dinky, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inferior, junior, lesser, light, low, lower, minus, negligible, paltry, petty, piddling, second-string, secondary, slight, small, small-fry, small-time, smaller, subaltern, subordinate, subsidiary, tacky, trifling, trivial, two-bit, under, unimportant, younger |
| Main Entry: | smalltime |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | minor |
| Synonyms: | accessory, below the mark, bush-league, casual, dependent, dinky, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inferior, junior, lesser, light, low, lower, minor-league, minus, negligible, paltry, petty, piddling, second-string, secondary, slight, small, small-fry, small-time, smaller, subaltern, subordinate, subsidiary, tacky*, trifling, trivial, two-bit, under, unimportant, younger |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | subject |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
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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, subject, 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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