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Subterranean vs. Underground — What's the Difference?

Subterranean vs. Underground — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Subterranean and Underground

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Subterranean

Situated or operating beneath the earth's surface; underground.

Underground

Situated, occurring, or operating below the surface of the earth
Underground caverns.
Underground missile sites.

Subterranean

Hidden; secret
Subterranean motives for murder.

Underground

Hidden or concealed; clandestine
Underground resistance to the tyrant.

Subterranean

Below ground, under the earth, underground.
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Underground

Of or relating to an organization involved in secret or illegal activity
Underground trade in weapons.

Subterranean

(by extension) Secret, concealed.

Underground

Of or relating to an avant-garde movement or its films, publications, and art, usually privately produced and of special appeal and often concerned with social or artistic experiment.

Subterranean

Being or lying under the surface of the earth; situated within the earth, or under ground; as, subterranean springs; a subterraneous passage.

Underground

A clandestine, often nationalist, organization fostering or planning hostile activities against, or the overthrow of, a government in power, such as an occupying military government
"an underground of dissident intellectuals" (Kenneth L. Woodward).

Subterranean

Being or operating under the surface of the earth;
Subterranean passages
A subsurface flow of water

Underground

Chiefly British A subway system.

Subterranean

Lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed);
Subterranean motives for murder
Looked too closely for an ulterior purpose in all knowledge

Underground

An avant-garde movement or publication.

Underground

Below the surface of the earth.

Underground

In secret; stealthily.

Underground

To situate under the ground
Workers undergrounding telephone lines.

Underground

(not comparable) Below the ground; below the surface of the Earth.
There is an underground tunnel that takes you across the river.

Underground

(figurative) Hidden, furtive, secretive.
These criminals operate through an underground network.

Underground

Outside the mainstream, especially unofficial and hidden from the authorities.
Underground music

Underground

Below the ground.
The tunnel goes underground at this point.

Underground

Secretly.

Underground

(geography) Regions beneath the surface of the earth, both natural (eg. caves) and man-made (eg. mines).

Underground

Syn of subway: a railway that is under the ground.
London Underground

Underground

A movement or organisation of people who resist political convention.
The French underground during World War II

Underground

A movement or organisation of people who resist artistic convention.

Underground

To route electricity distribution cables underground.

Underground

The place or space beneath the surface of the ground; subterranean space.
A spirit raised from depth of underground.

Underground

A subway or subway system, especially in the United Kingdom.

Underground

A secret organization opposed to the prevailing government; as, the French underground during the Nazi occupation.

Underground

A group or movement holding unorthodox views in an environment where conventional ideas dominate, as in artistic circles.

Underground

Being below the surface of the ground; as, an underground story or apartment.

Underground

Done or occurring out of sight; secret.

Underground

Beneath the surface of the earth.

Underground

A secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force

Underground

Electric underground railway

Underground

Under the level of the ground;
Belowground storage areas
Underground caverns

Underground

Conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods;
Clandestine intelligence operations
Cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines
Hole-and-corner intrigue
Secret missions
A secret agent
Secret sales of arms
Surreptitious mobilization of troops
An undercover investigation
Underground resistance

Underground

Used of independent armed resistance forces;
Guerrilla warfare
Partisan forces

Underground

In or into hiding or secret operation;
The organization was driven underground

Underground

Beneath the surface of the earth;
Water flowing underground

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