Piddling vs Subordinate - What's the difference?
piddling | subordinate | Related terms |
Insignificant, negligible, paltry, trivial, useless.
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.
Piddling is a related term of subordinate.
As adjectives the difference between piddling and subordinate
is that piddling is insignificant, negligible, paltry, trivial, useless while subordinate is placed in a lower class, rank, or position.As verbs the difference between piddling and subordinate
is that piddling is while subordinate is to make subservient.As a noun subordinate is
(senseid)(countable) one who is subordinate.piddling
English
Adjective
(-)- After all the work I'd done, he gave me a piddling amount of money.
- The ignoble hucksterage of piddling tithes. — Milton.
Verb
(head)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”.