- Subordinate - Youngster - Less advanced in age than another; younger. - Lower in standing or in rank; later in office; as, a junior
partner; junior counsel; junior captain. - Composed of juniors, whether younger or a lower standing;
as, the junior class; of or pertaining to juniors or to a junior class.
See Junior, n., 2. - Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life. - A younger person.
- Subordinate - Suceeding next in order to the first; of second place,
origin, rank, rank, etc.; not primary; subordinate; not of the first
order or rate. - Acting by deputation or delegated authority; as, the
work of secondary hands. - Possessing some quality, or having been subject to some
operation (as substitution), in the second degree; as, a secondary
salt, a secondary amine, etc. Cf. primary. - Subsequent in origin; -- said of minerals produced by
alteertion or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original
rocks mass; also of characters of minerals (as secondary cleavage,
etc.) developed by pressure or other causes. - Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird. - Dependent or consequent upon another disease; as,
Bright's disease is often secondary to scarlet fever. (b) Occuring in
the second stage of a disease; as, the secondary symptoms of syphilis.