Definition for Subjacent:

• Lying under or below: being in a lower situation.

Synonyms for Subjacent:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • subjacent.
  •beneath (adjective)
  • underlying,
  • lower.
  •down (adjective)
  • de-scending,
  • more precipitating,
  • most dropping,
  • more declining,
  • most bottomward,
  • most underneath,
  • more gravitating,
  • more slipping,
  • most gravitating,
  • most slumping,
  • more underneath,
  • more nether,
  • de-pressed,
  • most nether,
  • most groundward,
  • most sagging,
  • more under,
  • de pressed,
  • most under,
  • more bottomward,
  • most downgrade,
  • more groundward,
  • more slumping,
  • more downgrade,
  • most slipping,
  • more earthward,
  • more dropping,
  • most cascading,
  • slipping,
  • more sliding,
  • to bottom,
  • most sliding,
  • under neath,
  • most precipitating,
  • more cascading,
  • under-neath,
  • more sagging,
  • most earthward,
  • most declining,
  • de scending.

• Other synonyms:

  •adj.
  • down,
  • inferior,
  • lesser,
  • low,
  • small fry,
  • Earthward,
  • a notch under,
  • bottomward,
  • busher,
  • groundward,
  • less important,
  • small time,
  • small-fry,
  • the bottom,
  • third-string,
  • to the bottom,
  • under-sized.

Paraphrases for Subjacent:

• Independent

  • Adjective
    underlying.

Antonyms for Subjacent:

• adj.

  • all
    superjacent.
  • Other antonyms:
    overlying, superincumbent, superimposed, incumbent.

Subjacent Sentence Examples:

• The recollection of Rome will come back, after many years, in images of long delicious strolls, in musing loneliness, through the deserted ways of the ancient city; of climbing among its hills, over ruins, to reach some vantage - ground for mapping out the subjacent territory, and looking beyond on the glorious chains of greater and lesser mountains, clad in their imperial hues of gold and purple; and then, perhaps, of solemn entrance into the cool solitude of an open basilica, where your thought now rests, as your body then did, after the silent evening prayer, and brings forward from many well - remembered nooks, every local inscription, every lovely monument of art, the characteristic feature of each, or the great names with which it is associated.

• At that recital, made in tone complacent, 86 The frozen Knight stared speechless and aghast, Stared on those jaws to which he was subjacent, And felt the grinders cranch on their repast.