ARDRI Antonyms

• of or characteristic of low rank or importance

• of low or inferior quality

• written or printed below and to one side of another character

• having an orbit between the sun and the Earth's orbit

• one of lesser rank or station or quality

• a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character

• lower than a given reference point

• falling short of some prescribed norm

• of less size or importance

• smaller in size or amount or value

• the bottom one of two

• the lower of two berths

• look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval

• move something or somebody to a lower position

• set lower

• make lower or quieter

• cause to drop or sink

• low or inferior in station or quality

• inferior in rank or status

• used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)

• of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense)

• being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate

• the defensive football players who line up behind the linemen

• coil such that current is induced in it by passing a current through the primary coil

• inferior in rank or status

• depending on or incidental to what is original or primary

• not of major importance

• belonging to a lower class or rank

• the subject matter of a conversation or discussion

• something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation

• a branch of knowledge

• some situation or event that is thought about

• (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated

• a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation

• a person who owes allegiance to that nation

• (logic) the first term of a proposition

• possibly accepting or permitting

• being under the power or sovereignty of another or others

• likely to be affected by something

• cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to

• make accountable for

• make subservient; force to submit or subdue

• lower in rank or importance

• subject or submissive to authority or the control of another

• (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence

• an assistant subject to the authority or control of another

• a word that is more specific than a given word

• rank or order as less important or consider of less value

• make subordinate, dependent, or subservient

• an assistant subject to the authority or control of another