Usually means: Making secondary or less important.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. subordinative: Merriam-Webster
  2. subordinative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. subordinative: Collins English Dictionary
  4. subordinative: Vocabulary.com
  5. subordinative: Wordnik
  6. subordinative: Wiktionary
  7. subordinative: Dictionary.com
  8. Subordinative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. subordinative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. subordinative: Rhymezone
  11. Subordinative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. subordinative: FreeDictionary.org
  13. subordinative: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. Subordinative: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. subordinative: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. subordinative: Legal dictionary
  3. subordinative: Financial dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (subordinative)

▸ adjective:  Tending to subordinate; expressing subordination.
▸ adjective:  (grammar) Used to introduce a subordinate sentence.

Similar:
subordinator, subordinational, subjugative, subjugational, subjectional, substructional, sublative, subjunctional, subhierarchical, subclausal, more...

Opposite:
dominant, superior, commanding, leading, authoritative

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Similar:
subordinator, subordinational, subjugative, subjugational, subjectional, substructional, sublative, subjunctional, subhierarchical, subclausal, more...

Opposite:
dominant, superior, commanding, leading, authoritative



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