- Lower ranking - Of lesser importance - Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a
lower or inferior position. - Inferior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance,
or the like. - One who stands in order or rank below another; --
distinguished from a principal. - 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. - To make subject; to subject or subdue; as, to
subordinate the passions to reason.