Subjacent vs Downward - What's the difference?
subjacent | downward | Related terms |
Lying beneath or at a lower level; underlying.
*2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 194-5:
*:Since the times of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, however, there had always been a subjacent stream of travel literature which had queried the civilizing function of Western penetration of such societies.
Toward a lower level, whether in physical space, in a hierarchy, or in amount or value.
* Drayton
* Shakespeare
As adjectives the difference between subjacent and downward
is that subjacent is lying beneath or at a lower level; underlying while downward is moving or sloping down.As an adverb downward is
toward a lower level, whether in physical space, in a hierarchy, or in amount or value.subjacent
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Adjective
(en adjective)See also
* superjacent ----downward
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Adverb
(en-adv) (or downwards )- His position in society moved ever downward .
- Their heads they downward bent.
- A ring the county wears, / That downward hath descended in his house, / From son to son, some four or five descents.
