| demote | | |
| v. (social) | 1. break, bump, demote, kick downstairs, relegate | assign to a lower position; reduce in rank.; "She was demoted because she always speaks up"; "He was broken down to Sergeant" |
| ~ assign, delegate, designate, depute | give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person). |
| ~ sideline | remove from the center of activity or attention; place into an inferior position.; "The outspoken cabinet member was sidelined by the President" |
| ~ reduce | bring to humbler or weaker state or condition.; "He reduced the population to slavery" |
| deteriorate | | |
| v. (change) | 1. deteriorate | become worse or disintegrate.; "His mind deteriorated" |
| ~ go to pot, go to the dogs | become ruined.; "His business went to pot when economy soured" |
| ~ decay, dilapidate, crumble | fall into decay or ruin.; "The unoccupied house started to decay" |
| ~ wear off, wear thin, wear down, wear out, wear | deteriorate through use or stress.; "The constant friction wore out the cloth" |
| v. (body) | 2. degenerate, deteriorate, devolve, drop | grow worse.; "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match" |
| ~ fatigue, jade, tire, weary, pall | lose interest or become bored with something or somebody.; "I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food" |
| ~ languish, fade | become feeble.; "The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon" |
| ~ rot, waste | become physically weaker.; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world" |
| ~ decline, worsen | grow worse.; "Conditions in the slum worsened" |
| downgrade | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. downgrade | the property possessed by a slope or surface that descends. |
| ~ grade | the gradient of a slope or road or other surface.; "the road had a steep grade" |
| v. (cognition) | 2. downgrade | rate lower; lower in value or esteem. |
| ~ grade, rate, rank, place, range, order | assign a rank or rating to.; "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide" |
| lower | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. lower, lower berth | the lower of two berths. |
| ~ built in bed, bunk, berth | a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers. |
| v. (motion) | 2. bring down, get down, let down, lower, take down | move something or somebody to a lower position.; "take down the vase from the shelf" |
| ~ move, displace | cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense.; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" |
| ~ come down, descend, go down, fall | move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way.; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again" |
| ~ reef | lower and bring partially inboard.; "reef the sailboat's mast" |
| ~ depress | lower (prices or markets).; "The glut of oil depressed gas prices" |
| ~ dip | lower briefly.; "She dipped her knee" |
| ~ incline | lower or bend (the head or upper body), as in a nod or bow.; "She inclined her head to the student" |
| v. (change) | 3. lour, lower | set lower.; "lower a rating"; "lower expectations" |
| ~ devalue | lower the value or quality of.; "The tear devalues the painting" |
| ~ derate | lower the rated electrical capability of electrical apparatus. |
| ~ subordinate, subdue | make subordinate, dependent, or subservient.; "Our wishes have to be subordinated to that of our ruler" |
| v. (change) | 4. lour, lower, turn down | make lower or quieter.; "turn down the volume of a radio" |
| ~ minify, decrease, lessen | make smaller.; "He decreased his staff" |
| v. (contact) | 5. depress, lower | cause to drop or sink.; "The lack of rain had depressed the water level in the reservoir" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| v. (body) | 6. frown, glower, lour, lower | look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval. |
| ~ scowl | frown with displeasure. |
| ~ grimace, make a face, pull a face | contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state.; "He grimaced when he saw the amount of homework he had to do" |
| reduce | | |
| v. (change) | 1. bring down, cut, cut back, cut down, reduce, trim, trim back, trim down | cut down on; make a reduction in.; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits" |
| ~ shorten | make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration.; "He shortened his trip due to illness" |
| ~ spill | reduce the pressure of wind on (a sail). |
| ~ quench | reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance. |
| ~ cut | have a reducing effect.; "This cuts into my earnings" |
| ~ retrench | make a reduction, as in one's workforce.; "The company had to retrench" |
| ~ slash | cut drastically.; "Prices were slashed" |
| ~ thin out | make sparse.; "thin out the young plants" |
| ~ thin | make thin or thinner.; "Thin the solution" |
| ~ minify, decrease, lessen | make smaller.; "He decreased his staff" |
| ~ detract, take away | take away a part from; diminish.; "His bad manners detract from his good character" |
| ~ deflate | reduce or cut back the amount or availability of, creating a decline in value or prices.; "deflate the currency" |
| ~ inflate | increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value.; "inflate the currency" |
| ~ downsize | reduce in size or number.; "the company downsized its research staff" |
| ~ subtract | take off or away.; "this prefix was subtracted when the word was borrowed from French" |
| ~ knock off, shave | cut the price of. |
| v. (change) | 2. reduce | make less complex.; "reduce a problem to a single question" |
| ~ abbreviate | shorten.; "Abbreviate `New York' and write `NY'" |
| ~ simplify | make simpler or easier or reduce in complexity or extent.; "We had to simplify the instructions"; "this move will simplify our lives" |
| v. (social) | 3. reduce | bring to humbler or weaker state or condition.; "He reduced the population to slavery" |
| ~ demote, kick downstairs, relegate, bump, break | assign to a lower position; reduce in rank.; "She was demoted because she always speaks up"; "He was broken down to Sergeant" |
| v. (possession) | 4. reduce | simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another. |
| ~ math, mathematics, maths | a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement. |
| ~ interchange, substitute, replace, exchange | put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items.; "the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt"; "substitute regular milk with fat-free milk"; "synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning" |
| v. (emotion) | 5. reduce | lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation.; "She reduced her niece to a servant" |
| ~ demean, degrade, disgrace, take down, put down | reduce in worth or character, usually verbally.; "She tends to put down younger women colleagues"; "His critics took him down after the lecture" |
| v. (change) | 6. boil down, come down, reduce | be the essential element.; "The proposal boils down to a compromise" |
| ~ become, turn | undergo a change or development.; "The water turned into ice"; "Her former friend became her worst enemy"; "He turned traitor" |
| v. (change) | 7. reduce, shrink | reduce in size; reduce physically.; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?" |
| ~ scale down, reduce | make smaller.; "reduce an image" |
| ~ shrink, contract | become smaller or draw together.; "The fabric shrank"; "The balloon shrank" |
| ~ reef | reduce (a sail) by taking in a reef. |
| ~ miniaturise, miniaturize | design or construct on a smaller scale. |
| ~ minify, decrease, lessen | make smaller.; "He decreased his staff" |
| ~ depopulate, desolate | reduce in population.; "The epidemic depopulated the countryside" |
| ~ downsize | make in a smaller size.; "the car makers downsized the SUVs when fuel became very expensive" |
| ~ contract | make smaller.; "The heat contracted the woollen garment" |
| v. (possession) | 8. reduce | lessen and make more modest.; "reduce one's standard of living" |
| ~ impoverish | make poor. |
| v. (change) | 9. reduce, scale down | make smaller.; "reduce an image" |
| ~ shrink, reduce | reduce in size; reduce physically.; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?" |
| v. (change) | 10. deoxidise, deoxidize, reduce | to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons. |
| ~ chemical science, chemistry | the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions. |
| ~ change | undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" |
| ~ benficiate | subject to a reduction process.; "benficiate ores" |
| ~ pole | deoxidize molten metals by stirring them with a wooden pole. |
| v. (change) | 11. reduce, tighten | narrow or limit.; "reduce the influx of foreigners" |
| ~ confine, limit, throttle, restrain, trammel, bound, restrict | place limits on (extent or access).; "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends" |
| v. (social) | 12. keep down, quash, reduce, repress, subdue, subjugate | put down by force or intimidation.; "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land" |
| ~ crush, oppress, suppress | come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority.; "The government oppresses political activists" |
| v. (contact) | 13. reduce | undergo meiosis.; "The cells reduce" |
| ~ divide, part, separate | come apart.; "The two pieces that we had glued separated" |
| v. (contact) | 14. reduce | reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site. |
| ~ reposition | place into another position. |
| v. (change) | 15. reduce | destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it. |
| ~ linguistics | the scientific study of language. |
| ~ de-emphasise, de-emphasize, destress | reduce the emphasis. |
| ~ obscure | reduce a vowel to a neutral one, such as a schwa. |
| v. (change) | 16. abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten | reduce in scope while retaining essential elements.; "The manuscript must be shortened" |
| ~ bowdlerise, bowdlerize, expurgate, castrate, shorten | edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate.; "bowdlerize a novel" |
| ~ edit out, edit, cut | cut and assemble the components of.; "edit film"; "cut recording tape" |
| ~ condense, concentrate, digest | make more concise.; "condense the contents of a book into a summary" |
| ~ minify, decrease, lessen | make smaller.; "He decreased his staff" |
| v. (change) | 17. boil down, concentrate, decoct, reduce | be cooked until very little liquid is left.; "The sauce should reduce to one cup" |
| ~ cookery, cooking, preparation | the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat.; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife" |
| ~ decrease, diminish, lessen, fall | decrease in size, extent, or range.; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper" |
| v. (change) | 18. boil down, concentrate, reduce | cook until very little liquid is left.; "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time" |
| ~ cookery, cooking, preparation | the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat.; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife" |
| ~ minify, decrease, lessen | make smaller.; "He decreased his staff" |
| v. (change) | 19. cut, dilute, reduce, thin, thin out | lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture.; "cut bourbon" |
| ~ weaken | lessen the strength of.; "The fever weakened his body" |
| ~ water down | make less strong or intense.; "water down the mixture" |
| v. (body) | 20. lose weight, melt off, reduce, slenderize, slim, slim down, thin | take off weight. |
| ~ sweat off | lose weight by sweating.; "I sweated off 3 pounds in the sauna" |
| ~ change state, turn | undergo a transformation or a change of position or action.; "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism"; "The people turned against the President when he stole the election" |
| humble | | |
| v. (emotion) | 1. humble | cause to be unpretentious.; "This experience will humble him" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| ~ efface | make inconspicuous.; "efface oneself" |
| v. (emotion) | 2. abase, chagrin, humble, humiliate, mortify | cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of.; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss" |
| ~ spite, bruise, injure, wound, offend, hurt | hurt the feelings of.; "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised my ego" |
| ~ demolish, crush, smash | humiliate or depress completely.; "She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation"; "The death of her son smashed her" |
| ~ demean, degrade, disgrace, take down, put down | reduce in worth or character, usually verbally.; "She tends to put down younger women colleagues"; "His critics took him down after the lecture" |
| adj. | 3. humble, low, lowly, modest, small | low or inferior in station or quality.; "a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings" |
| ~ inferior | of or characteristic of low rank or importance. |
| adj. | 4. humble | marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful.; "a humble apology"; "essentially humble...and self-effacing, he achieved the highest formal honors and distinctions" |
| ~ modest | marked by simplicity; having a humble opinion of yourself.; "a modest apartment"; "too modest to wear his medals" |
| ~ humbled, humiliated, crushed, broken, low | subdued or brought low in condition or status.; "brought low"; "a broken man"; "his broken spirit" |
| ~ meek, mild, modest | humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness.; "meek and self-effacing" |
| adj. | 5. humble, lowly, menial | used of unskilled work (especially domestic work). |
| ~ unskilled | not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency.; "unskilled in the art of rhetoric"; "an enthusiastic but unskillful mountain climber"; "unskilled labor"; "workers in unskilled occupations are finding fewer and fewer job opportunities"; "unskilled workmanship" |
| adj. | 6. base, baseborn, humble, lowly | of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense).; "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or lowly) birth" |
| ~ lowborn | of humble birth or origins.; "a topsy-turvy society of lowborn rich and blue-blooded poor" |
| ignoble | | |
| adj. | 1. ignoble | completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose.; "something cowardly and ignoble in his attitude"; "I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part" |
| ~ cowardly, fearful | lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted.; "cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then" |
| ~ contemptible | deserving of contempt or scorn. |
| ~ dishonorable, dishonourable | lacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor.; "dishonorable in thought and deed" |
| ~ meanspirited, mean, base | having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality.; "that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"; "taking a mean advantage"; "chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"; "something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics" |
| ~ currish | base and cowardly. |
| adj. | 2. ignoble, ungentle, untitled | not of the nobility.; "of ignoble (or ungentle) birth"; "untitled civilians" |
| ~ lowborn | of humble birth or origins.; "a topsy-turvy society of lowborn rich and blue-blooded poor" |
| low | | |
| n. (state) | 1. depression, low | an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation.; "a low moved in over night bringing sleet and snow" |
| ~ air mass | a large body of air with uniform characteristics horizontally. |
| ~ cyclone | (meteorology) rapid inward circulation of air masses about a low pressure center; circling counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern. |
| n. (person) | 2. david low, low, sir david alexander cecil low, sir david low | British political cartoonist (born in New Zealand) who created the character Colonel Blimp (1891-1963). |
| ~ cartoonist | a person who draws cartoons. |
| n. (attribute) | 3. low | a low level or position or degree.; "the stock market fell to a new low" |
| ~ degree, level, grade | a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality.; "a moderate grade of intelligence"; "a high level of care is required"; "it is all a matter of degree" |
| n. (artifact) | 4. first, first gear, low, low gear | the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving. |
| ~ auto, automobile, car, motorcar, machine | a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine.; "he needs a car to get to work" |
| ~ gear mechanism, gear | a mechanism for transmitting motion for some specific purpose (as the steering gear of a vehicle). |
| v. (communication) | 5. low, moo | make a low noise, characteristic of bovines. |
| ~ let loose, let out, utter, emit | express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words).; "She let out a big heavy sigh"; "He uttered strange sounds that nobody could understand" |
| adj. | 6. low | less than normal in degree or intensity or amount.; "low prices"; "the reservoir is low" |
| ~ devalued, debased, degraded | lowered in value.; "the dollar is low"; "a debased currency" |
| ~ depressed, down | lower than previously.; "the market is depressed"; "prices are down" |
| ~ low-level | not intense.; "low-level radiation" |
| ~ rock-bottom, reduced | well below normal (especially in price). |
| ~ inferior | of or characteristic of low rank or importance. |
| adj. | 7. low | literal meanings; being at or having a relatively small elevation or upward extension.; "low ceilings"; "low clouds"; "low hills"; "the sun is low"; "low furniture"; "a low bow" |
| ~ deep | with head or back bent low.; "a deep bow" |
| ~ flat-growing, ground-hugging, low-growing | of plants that grow relatively low to the ground. |
| ~ low-altitude, low-level | occurring at a relatively low altitude.; "a low-level strafing run" |
| ~ low-lying | having a small elevation above the ground or horizon or sea level.; "low-lying clouds" |
| ~ lowset, low-set | lower than average.; "lowset ears"; "a stocky low-set animal" |
| ~ under, nether | located below or beneath something else.; "nether garments"; "the under parts of a machine" |
| ~ squat, underslung | having a low center of gravity; built low to the ground. |
| ~ inferior | of or characteristic of low rank or importance. |
| ~ short, little | low in stature; not tall.; "he was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"; "a little man" |
| ~ down | being or moving lower in position or less in some value.; "lay face down"; "the moon is down"; "our team is down by a run"; "down by a pawn"; "the stock market is down today" |
| adj. | 8. low, low-toned | very low in volume.; "a low murmur"; "the low-toned murmur of the surf" |
| ~ soft | (of sound) relatively low in volume.; "soft voices"; "soft music" |
| adj. | 9. low | unrefined in character.; "low comedy" |
| ~ unrefined | (used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth.; "how can a refined girl be drawn to such an unrefined man?" |
| adj. | 10. low, low-pitched | used of sounds and voices; low in pitch or frequency. |
| ~ alto, contralto | of or being the lowest female voice. |
| ~ baritone | lower in range than tenor and higher than bass.; "a baritone voice"; "baritone oboe" |
| ~ bass, deep | having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range.; "a deep voice"; "a bass voice is lower than a baritone voice"; "a bass clarinet" |
| ~ contrabass, double-bass | pitched an octave below normal bass instrumental or vocal range.; "contrabass or double-bass clarinet" |
| ~ throaty | sounding as if pronounced low in the throat.; "a rich throaty voice" |
| adj. | 11. abject, low, low-down, miserable, scummy, scurvy | of the most contemptible kind.; "abject cowardice"; "a low stunt to pull"; "a low-down sneak"; "his miserable treatment of his family"; "You miserable skunk!"; "a scummy rabble"; "a scurvy trick" |
| ~ contemptible | deserving of contempt or scorn. |
| adj. | 12. depleted, low | no longer sufficient.; "supplies are low"; "our funds are depleted" |
| ~ insufficient, deficient | of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement.; "insufficient funds" |
| adj. | 13. broken, crushed, humbled, humiliated, low | subdued or brought low in condition or status.; "brought low"; "a broken man"; "his broken spirit" |
| ~ humble | marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful.; "a humble apology"; "essentially humble...and self-effacing, he achieved the highest formal honors and distinctions" |
| adj. | 14. blue, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low, low-spirited | filled with melancholy and despondency.; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted" |
| ~ dejected | affected or marked by low spirits.; "is dejected but trying to look cheerful" |
| adv. | 15. low | in a low position; near the ground.; "the branches hung low" |
| minor | | |
| n. (person) | 1. child, fry, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster | a young person of either sex.; "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngster" |
| ~ child's body | the body of a human child. |
| ~ juvenile, juvenile person | a young person, not fully developed. |
| ~ bairn | a child: son or daughter. |
| ~ buster | a robust child. |
| ~ changeling | a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy. |
| ~ child prodigy, infant prodigy, wonder child | a prodigy whose talents are recognized at an early age.; "Mozart was a child prodigy" |
| ~ foster-child, foster child, fosterling | a child who is raised by foster parents. |
| ~ scamp, imp, monkey, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag | one who is playfully mischievous. |
| ~ kiddy | a young child. |
| ~ orphan | a child who has lost both parents. |
| ~ peanut | a young child who is small for his age. |
| ~ picaninny, piccaninny, pickaninny | (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child. |
| ~ poster child | a child afflicted by some disease or deformity whose picture is used on posters to raise money for charitable purposes.; "she was the poster child for muscular dystrophy" |
| ~ kindergartener, kindergartner, preschooler | a child who attends a preschool or kindergarten. |
| ~ silly | a word used for misbehaving children.; "don't be a silly" |
| ~ sprog | a child. |
| ~ bambino, toddler, yearling, tot | a young child. |
| ~ urchin | poor and often mischievous city child. |
| ~ street child, waif | a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned.; "street children beg or steal in order to survive" |
| adj. | 2. minor | of lesser importance or stature or rank.; "a minor poet"; "had a minor part in the play"; "a minor official"; "many of these hardy adventurers were minor noblemen"; "minor back roads" |
| ~ peanut, insignificant | of little importance or influence or power; of minor status.; "a minor, insignificant bureaucrat"; "peanut politicians" |
| ~ secondary | not of major importance.; "played a secondary role in world events" |
| adj. | 3. minor | lesser in scope or effect.; "had minor differences"; "a minor disturbance" |
| adj. | 4. minor | inferior in number or size or amount.; "a minor share of the profits"; "Ursa Minor" |
| adj. | 5. minor | of a scale or mode.; "the minor keys"; "in B flat minor" |
| ~ music | an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner. |
| adj. | 6. minor, nonaged, underage | not of legal age.; "minor children" |
| ~ law, jurisprudence | the collection of rules imposed by authority.; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" |
| adj. | 7. minor | of lesser seriousness or danger.; "suffered only minor injuries"; "some minor flooding"; "a minor tropical disturbance" |
| adj. | 8. minor | of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization. |
| adj. | 9. minor | of the younger of two boys with the same family name.; "Jones minor" |
| ~ britain, great britain, u.k., uk, united kingdom, united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland | a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom. |
| ~ junior | younger; lower in rank; shorter in length of tenure or service. |
| adj. | 10. minor, venial | warranting only temporal punishment.; "venial sin" |
| ~ theology, divinity | the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth. |
| ~ pardonable | admitting of being pardoned. |
| adj. | 11. minor, modest, pocket-size, pocket-sized, small, small-scale | limited in size or scope.; "a small business"; "a newspaper with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket-size country" |
| ~ limited | small in range or scope.; "limited war"; "a limited success"; "a limited circle of friends" |
| subordinate | | |
| n. (person) | 1. foot soldier, subordinate, subsidiary, underling | an assistant subject to the authority or control of another. |
| ~ assistant, helper, help, supporter | a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose.; "my invaluable assistant"; "they hired additional help to finish the work" |
| ~ associate | a person with subordinate membership in a society, institution, or commercial enterprise.; "associates in the law firm bill at a lower rate than do partners" |
| ~ bottom dog | a person of low status. |
| ~ cog | a subordinate who performs an important but routine function.; "he was a small cog in a large machine" |
| ~ man | a male subordinate.; "the chief stationed two men outside the building"; "he awaited word from his man in Havana" |
| ~ second fiddle, second banana | someone who serves in a subordinate capacity or plays a secondary role. |
| n. (communication) | 2. hyponym, subordinate, subordinate word | a word that is more specific than a given word. |
| ~ word | a unit of language that native speakers can identify.; "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning" |
| v. (cognition) | 3. subordinate | rank or order as less important or consider of less value.; "Art is sometimes subordinated to Science in these schools" |
| ~ grade, rate, rank, place, range, order | assign a rank or rating to.; "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide" |
| ~ outclass | cause to appear in a lower class.; "The Yankees outclassed Cincinnati" |
| v. (change) | 4. subdue, subordinate | make subordinate, dependent, or subservient.; "Our wishes have to be subordinated to that of our ruler" |
| ~ lour, lower | set lower.; "lower a rating"; "lower expectations" |
| adj. | 5. low-level, subordinate | lower in rank or importance. |
| ~ assistant, adjunct | of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another. |
| ~ associate | having partial rights and privileges or subordinate status.; "an associate member"; "an associate professor" |
| ~ secondary | belonging to a lower class or rank. |
| ~ under | lower in rank, power, or authority.; "an under secretary" |
| ~ subordinate | subject or submissive to authority or the control of another.; "a subordinate kingdom" |
| ~ inferior | of or characteristic of low rank or importance. |
| adj. | 6. subordinate | subject or submissive to authority or the control of another.; "a subordinate kingdom" |
| ~ submissive | inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination.; "submissive servants"; "a submissive reply"; "replacing troublemakers with more submissive people" |
| ~ subordinate, low-level | lower in rank or importance. |
| ~ feudatory | owing feudal allegiance to or being subject to a sovereign.; "it remained feudatory to India until 1365" |
| ~ ruled | subject to a ruling authority.; "the ruled mass" |
| ~ subject, dependent | being under the power or sovereignty of another or others.; "subject peoples"; "a dependent prince" |
| ~ subservient | compliant and obedient to authority.; "editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones" |
| adj. | 7. dependent, subordinate | (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" |
| ~ grammar | the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics). |
| under | | |
| adj. | 1. nether, under | located below or beneath something else.; "nether garments"; "the under parts of a machine" |
| ~ low | literal meanings; being at or having a relatively small elevation or upward extension.; "low ceilings"; "low clouds"; "low hills"; "the sun is low"; "low furniture"; "a low bow" |
| adj. | 2. under | lower in rank, power, or authority.; "an under secretary" |
| ~ subordinate, low-level | lower in rank or importance. |
| adv. | 3. under | down to defeat, death, or ruin.; "their competitors went under" |
| adv. | 4. under | through a range downward.; "children six and under will be admitted free" |
| adv. | 5. under | into unconsciousness.; "this will put the patient under" |
| adv. | 6. under | in or into a state of subordination or subjugation.; "we must keep our disappointment under" |
| adv. | 7. under | below some quantity or limit.; "fifty dollars or under" |
| adv. | 8. under | below the horizon.; "the sun went under" |
| adv. | 9. under | down below.; "get under quickly!" |
| adv. | 10. below, under | further down.; "see under for further discussion" |
| below | | |
| adv. | 1. at a lower place, below, beneath, to a lower place | in or to a place that is lower. |
| adv. | 2. below | at a later place.; "see below" |
| adv. | 3. below, infra | (in writing) see below.; "vide infra" |
| adv. | 4. below, down the stairs, downstairs, on a lower floor | on a floor below.; "the tenants live downstairs" |
| beneath | | |
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