Word Meanings - SUBJECT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

first part is L. subtus below, fr. sub under), subgiet, subject, F. sujet, from L. subjectus lying under, subjected, p.p. of subjicere, subicere, to throw, lay, place, or bring under; sub under + jacere to 1. Placed or situated under; lying below,

Additional info about word: SUBJECT

first part is L. subtus below, fr. sub under), subgiet, subject, F. sujet, from L. subjectus lying under, subjected, p.p. of subjicere, subicere, to throw, lay, place, or bring under; sub under + jacere to 1. Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation. Spenser. 2. Placed under the power of another; specifically (International Law), owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state; as, Jamaica is subject to Great Britain. Esau was never subject to Jacob. Locke. 3. Exposed; liable; prone; disposed; as, a country subject to extreme heat; men subject to temptation. All human things are subject to decay. Dryden. 4. Obedient; submissive. Put them in mind to be subject to principalities. Titus iii. 1. Syn. -- Liable; subordinate; inferior; obnoxious; exposed. See Liable.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SUBJECT)

• Affair
• Matter
• business
• concern
• subject
• topic
• transaction
• Amenable
• Liable
• dependent
• responsible
• answerable
• accountable
• pliant
• impressible
• ductile
• docile
• Case
• Occurrence
• circumstance
• contingency
• event
• plight
• predicament
• fact
• condition
• instance
• Citizen
• Townsman
• inhabitant
• burgess
• denizen
• Countryman
• Rustic
• clown
• boor
• compatriot
• swain
• yeoman
• bus
• bandman
• farmer
• agriculturist
• laborer
• peasant
• fellow-countryman
• fellow-subject
• fellowcitizen
• citizen
• native

Related words: (words related to SUBJECT)

• RESPONSIBLE
  1. Liable to respond; likely to be called upon to answer; accountable; answerable; amenable; as, a guardian is responsible to the court for his conduct in the office. 2. Able to respond or answer for one's conduct and obligations; trustworthy,
• INSTANCE
  1. The act or quality of being instant or pressing; urgency; solicitation; application; suggestion; motion. Undertook at her instance to restore them. Sir W. Scott. 2. That which is instant or urgent; motive. The instances that second marriage
• SUBJECTION
  1. The act of subjecting, or of bringing under the dominion of another; the act of subduing. The conquest of the kingdom, and subjection of the rebels. Sir M. Hale. 2. The state of being subject, or under the power, control, and government
• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• EVENT
  1. That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad. "The events of his early years." Macaulay. To watch quietly the course of events. Jowett There is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked. Eccl. ix.
• SUBJECTIST
  One skilled in subjective philosophy; a subjectivist.
• SUBJECTNESS
  Quality of being subject.
• FARMERESS
  A woman who farms.
• CLOWNAGE
  Behavior or manners of a clown; clownery. B. Jonson.
• RUSTICAL
  Rustic. "Rustical society." Thackeray. -- Rus"tic*al*ly, adv. -- Rus"tic*al*ness, n.
• SWAINLING
  A little swain.
• CONDITIONALITY
  The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
• PEASANT
  A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries. Syn. -- Countryman; rustic; swain; hind. (more info) with the p.pr. of verbs), païsan, F. paysan, fr. OF. & F. pays
• PEASANTLY
  Peasantlike. Milton.
• EVENTILATION
  The act of eventilating; discussion. Bp. Berkely.
• FARMERY
  The buildings and yards necessary for the business of a farm; a homestead.
• DENIZEN
  or country); opposed to forain foreign, and fr. denz within, F. dans, fr. L. de intus, prop., from within, intus being from in in. See In, 1. A dweller; an inhabitant. "Denizens of air." Pope. Denizens of their own free, independent state. Sir
• RUSTICATE
  To go into or reside in the country; to ruralize. Pope.
• CLOWN
  Fries. kl clown, dial. Sw. klunn log, Dan. klunt log block, and E. 1. A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an illbred person; a boor. Sir P. Sidney. 2. One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl. The clown, the child
• CONDITIONAL
  Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense. A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another. Whately. The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . .
• ELIMINATIVE
  Relating to, or carrying on, elimination.
• NOMINATIVELY
  In the manner of a nominative; as a nominative.
• EMANATIVE
  Issuing forth; effluent.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• DOMINATIVE
  Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys.
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• REGNATIVE
  Ruling; governing.
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• COLABORER
  One who labors with another; an associate in labor.
• UNCONCERNMENT
  The state of being unconcerned, or of having no share or concern; unconcernedness. South.
• COORDINATIVE
  Expressing coördination. J. W. Gibbs.
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.