Nugatory vs Subordinate - What's the difference?
nugatory | subordinate | Related terms |
Trivial, trifling or of little importance.
* 1872 ,
Ineffective, invalid or futile.
* 1792 ,
(legal) Having no force, inoperative, ineffectual.
* 1819 , (17 U.S. 316)
(computing) Removable from a computer program with safety, but harmless if retained.
Placed in a lower class, rank, or position.
* Woodward
Submissive or inferior to, or controlled by, authority.
* South
(grammar, of a clause, not comparable) dependent on and either modifying or complementing the main clause
To make subservient.
To treat as of less value or importance.
(finance) To make of lower priority in order of payment in bankruptcy.
Nugatory is a related term of subordinate.
As adjectives the difference between nugatory and subordinate
is that nugatory is trivial, trifling or of little importance while subordinate is placed in a lower class, rank, or position.As a noun subordinate is
(senseid)(countable) one who is subordinate.As a verb subordinate is
to make subservient.nugatory
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I might refer to the general conviction and the common sense of society that such an investment cannot be treated as absolutely idle and nugatory .
- I can not dismiss the subject of Indian affairs without again recommending to your consideration the expediency of more adequate provision for giving energy to the laws throughout our interior frontier and for restraining the commission of outrages upon the Indians, without which all pacific plans must prove nugatory .
- The word "necessary" is considered as controlling the whole sentence, and as limiting the right to pass laws for the execution of the granted powers to such as are indispensable, and without which the power would be nugatory .
subordinate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The several kinds and subordinate species of each are easily distinguished.
- It was subordinate , not enslaved, to the understanding.
- In the sentence, “The barbecue finished before John arrived”, the subordinate clause “before John arrived” specifies the time of the main clause, “The barbecue finished”.