Subordinative vs. Subordinate — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Subordinative and Subordinate
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Definitions
Subordinative➦
Belonging to a lower or inferior class or rank; secondary.
Subordinate➦
Lower in rank or position
His subordinate officers
Subordinative➦
Subject to the authority or control of another.
Subordinate➦
A person under the authority or control of another within an organization
He was mild-mannered, especially with his subordinates
Subordinative➦
One that is subordinate.
Subordinate➦
Treat or regard as of lesser importance than something else
Practical considerations were subordinated to political expediency
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Subordinative➦
To put in a lower or inferior rank or class.
Subordinate➦
Belonging to a lower or inferior class or rank; secondary.
Subordinative➦
To make subservient; subdue.
Subordinate➦
Subject to the authority or control of another.
Subordinative➦
Tending to subordinate; expressing subordination.
Subordinate➦
One that is subordinate.
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Subordinative➦
(grammar) Used to introduce a subordinate sentence.
A subordinative conjunction
Subordinate➦
To put in a lower or inferior rank or class.
Subordinative➦
Tending to subordinate; expressing subordination; used to introduce a subordinate sentence; as, a subordinative conjunction.
Subordinate➦
To make subservient; subdue.
Subordinative➦
Serving to connect a subordinate clause to a main clause;
`when' in `I will come when I can' is a subordinating conjunction
Subordinate➦
Placed in a lower class, rank, or position.
Subordinate➦
Submissive or inferior to, or controlled by authority.
Subordinate➦
Dependent on and either modifying or complementing the main clause
In the sentence “The barbecue finished before John arrived”, the subordinate clause “before John arrived” specifies the time of the main clause, “The barbecue finished”.
Subordinate➦
Descending in a regular series.
Subordinate➦
(countable) One who is subordinate.
Subordinate➦
(transitive) To make subservient.
Subordinate➦
(transitive) To treat as of less value or importance.
Subordinate➦
To make of lower priority in order of payment in bankruptcy.
Subordinate➦
Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position.
The several kinds and subordinate species of each are easily distinguished.
Subordinate➦
Inferior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance, or the like.
It was subordinate, not enslaved, to the understanding.
Subordinate➦
One who stands in order or rank below another; - distinguished from a principal.
Subordinate➦
To place in a lower order or class; to make or consider as of less value or importance; as, to subordinate one creature to another.
Subordinate➦
To make subject; to subject or subdue; as, to subordinate the passions to reason.
Subordinate➦
An assistant subject to the authority or control of another
Subordinate➦
A word that is more specific than a given word
Subordinate➦
Rank or order as less important or consider of less value;
Art is sometimes subordinated to Science in these schools
Subordinate➦
Make subordinate, dependent, or subservient;
Our wishes have to be subordinated to that of our ruler
Subordinate➦
Lower in rank or importance
Subordinate➦
Subject or submissive to authority or the control of another;
A subordinate kingdom
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
Subordinate➦
Inferior in rank or status;
The junior faculty
A lowly corporal
Petty officialdom
A subordinate functionary
