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Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.

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Similar meaning 6

Affected 84% connected

of Affect

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Affected 84% connected

of Affect

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Subordinate 84% connected

Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position.

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Subordinate 84% connected

Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position.

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Susceptible 84% connected

Capable of admitting anything additional, or any change, affection, or influence; readily acted upon; as, a body susceptible of color or of alteratio…

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Susceptible 84% connected

Capable of admitting anything additional, or any change, affection, or influence; readily acted upon; as, a body susceptible of color or of alteratio…

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Broader term 16

Actor 76% connected

One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.

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Affect 76% connected

To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

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Constituent 76% connected

Serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental; component.

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Content 76% connected

Contained within limits; hence, having the desires limited by that which one has; not disposed to repine or grumble; satisfied; contented; at rest.

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Doer 76% connected

One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.

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Domain 76% connected

Dominion; empire; authority.

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Dominate 76% connected

To predominate over; to rule; to govern.

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Impact 76% connected

To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place.

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Master 76% connected

A vessel having (so many) masts; -- used only in compounds; as, a two-master.

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Message 76% connected

Any notice, word, or communication, written or verbal, sent from one person to another.

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Submit 76% connected

To let down; to lower.

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Substance 76% connected

That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in whic…

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Term 76% connected

That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary.

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Thing 76% connected

Whatever exists, or is conceived to exist, as a separate entity, whether animate or inanimate; any separable or distinguishable object of thought.

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Touch 76% connected

To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

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Worker 76% connected

One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.

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Architecture 76% connected

The art or science of building; especially, the art of building houses, churches, bridges, and other structures, for the purposes of civil life; -- o…

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Area 76% connected

Any plane surface, as of the floor of a room or church, or of the ground within an inclosure; an open space in a building.

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Citizen 76% connected

One who enjoys the freedom and privileges of a city; a freeman of a city, as distinguished from a foreigner, or one not entitled to its franchises.

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Compatriot 76% connected

One of the same country, and having like interests and feeling.

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Divinity 76% connected

The state of being divine; the nature or essence of God; deity; godhead.

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Engineering 76% connected

of Engineer

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Frontier 76% connected

That part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country,…

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Genealogy 76% connected

An account or history of the descent of a person or family from an ancestor; enumeration of ancestors and their children in the natural order of succ…

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Graphology 76% connected

The art of judging of a person's character, disposition, and aptitude from his handwriting.

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Head 76% connected

The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…

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Humanities 76% connected

of Humanity

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Keynote 76% connected

The tonic or first tone of the scale in which a piece or passage is written; the fundamental tone of the chord, to which all the modulations of the p…

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Major 76% connected

Greater in number, quantity, or extent; as, the major part of the assembly; the major part of the revenue; the major part of the territory.

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Nationalist 76% connected

One who advocates national unity and independence; one of a party favoring Irish independence.

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Occultism 76% connected

A certain Oriental system of theosophy.

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Ology 76% connected

A colloquial or humorous name for any science or branch of knowledge.

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Patriot 76% connected

One who loves his country, and zealously supports its authority and interests.

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Precedent 76% connected

Going before; anterior; preceding; antecedent; as, precedent services.

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Question 76% connected

The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer.

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Remit 76% connected

To send back; to give up; to surrender; to resign.

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Science 76% connected

Knowledge; knowledge of principles and causes; ascertained truth of facts.

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Technology 76% connected

Industrial science; the science of systematic knowledge of the industrial arts, especially of the more important manufactures, as spinning, weaving,…

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Theogony 76% connected

The generation or genealogy of the gods; that branch of heathen theology which deals with the origin and descent of the deities; also, a poem treatin…

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Theology 76% connected

The science of God or of religion; the science which treats of the existence, character, and attributes of God, his laws and government, the doctrine…

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Manner of action 8

Dragoon 76% connected

Formerly, a soldier who was taught and armed to serve either on horseback or on foot; now, a mounted soldier; a cavalry man.

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Enslave 76% connected

To reduce to slavery; to make a slave of; to subject to a dominant influence.

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Expose 76% connected

To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection.

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Incur 76% connected

To meet or fall in with, as something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to put one's self in the way of; to expose one's self to; to become liable o…

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Put 76% connected

A pit.

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Refract 76% connected

To bend sharply and abruptly back; to break off.

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Shipwreck 76% connected

The breaking in pieces, or shattering, of a ship or other vessel by being cast ashore or driven against rocks, shoals, etc., by the violence of the w…

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Vitriol 76% connected

A sulphate of any one of certain metals, as copper, iron, zinc, cobalt. So called on account of the glassy appearance or luster.

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Derivationally related 14

Dependency 74% connected

State of being dependent; dependence; state of being subordinate; subordination; concatenation; connection; reliance; trust.

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Dependency 74% connected

State of being dependent; dependence; state of being subordinate; subordination; concatenation; connection; reliance; trust.

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Dependent 74% connected

Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf.

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Dependent 74% connected

Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf.

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Disciplinary 74% connected

Pertaining to discipline; intended for discipline; corrective; belonging to a course of training.

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Disciplinary 74% connected

Pertaining to discipline; intended for discipline; corrective; belonging to a course of training.

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Matter 74% connected

That of which anything is composed; constituent substance; material; the material or substantial part of anything; the constituent elements of concep…

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Matter 74% connected

That of which anything is composed; constituent substance; material; the material or substantial part of anything; the constituent elements of concep…

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Subjection 74% connected

The act of subjecting, or of bringing under the dominion of another; the act of subduing.

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Subjection 74% connected

The act of subjecting, or of bringing under the dominion of another; the act of subduing.

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Subjugate 74% connected

To subdue, and bring under the yoke of power or dominion; to conquer by force, and compel to submit to the government or absolute control of another;…

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Subjugate 74% connected

To subdue, and bring under the yoke of power or dominion; to conquer by force, and compel to submit to the government or absolute control of another;…

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Subjugator 74% connected

One who subjugates; a conqueror.

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Subjugator 74% connected

One who subjugates; a conqueror.

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Causes 2

Experience 72% connected

Trial, as a test or experiment.

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See 72% connected

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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Containing group 3

Country 70% connected

A tract of land; a region; the territory of an independent nation; (as distinguished from any other region, and with a personal pronoun) the region o…

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Land 70% connected

Urine. See Lant.

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Nation 70% connected

A part, or division, of the people of the earth, distinguished from the rest by common descent, language, or institutions; a race; a stock.

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Containing whole 2

Scene 70% connected

The structure on which a spectacle or play is exhibited; the part of a theater in which the acting is done, with its adjuncts and decorations; the st…

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View 70% connected

The act of seeing or beholding; sight; look; survey; examination by the eye; inspection.

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Synonym 15

Bailiwick 92% connected

The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority.

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Capable 92% connected

Possessing ability, qualification, or susceptibility; having capacity; of sufficient size or strength; as, a room capable of holding a large number;…

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Case 92% connected

A box, sheath, or covering; as, a case for holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridge; a case (cove…

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Content 92% connected

Contained within limits; hence, having the desires limited by that which one has; not disposed to repine or grumble; satisfied; contented; at rest.

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Dependent 92% connected

Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf.

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Discipline 92% connected

The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, menta…

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Field 92% connected

Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country.

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Issue 92% connected

The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air fr…

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Matter 92% connected

That of which anything is composed; constituent substance; material; the material or substantial part of anything; the constituent elements of concep…

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National 92% connected

Of or pertaining to a nation; common to a whole people or race; public; general; as, a national government, language, dress, custom, calamity, etc.

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Open 92% connected

Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over;…

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Study 92% connected

A setting of the mind or thoughts upon a subject; hence, application of mind to books, arts, or science, or to any subject, for the purpose of acquir…

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Subjugate 92% connected

To subdue, and bring under the yoke of power or dominion; to conquer by force, and compel to submit to the government or absolute control of another;…

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Theme 92% connected

A subject or topic on which a person writes or speaks; a proposition for discussion or argument; a text.

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Topic 92% connected

One of the various general forms of argument employed in probable as distinguished from demonstrative reasoning, -- denominated by Aristotle to`poi (…

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