Base
Base adjective - Not following or in accordance with standards of honor and decency.
Subordinate and base are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Subordinate" instead an adjective "Base".
Subordinate
Subordinate adjective - Having not so great importance or rank as another.
Base and subordinate are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Base" instead an adjective "Subordinate".
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
-
Redshirt Army: Aside from Sergeant Sykes and a female subordinate, the Scavenger soldiers are wiped out to a man during the second drone attack on their base, to the point of only Sykes and his subordinate are left to fight off the much bigger third wave.
Source: Film / Oblivion (2013) -
Oblivion (2013) : Aside from Sergeant Sykes and a female subordinate, the Scavenger soldiers are wiped out to a man during the second drone attack on their base, to the point of only Sykes and his subordinate are left to fight off the much bigger third wave.
Source: Redshirt Army -
Aaron Simmons, who when it looks like the Federation has even breached the base, hands control of the base to subordinate claiming he will return, then proceeds to kill two guards to escape the base all while ranting how he doesn't want to die after his successful Gambit Roulette.
Source: Anime / Mobile Suit Gundam AGE
Cite this Source
Subordinate and Base. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/base/subordinate
Base & Subordinate. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/base/subordinate>.
Subordinate or Base. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/base/subordinate.
Google Ngram Viewer shows how "base" and "subordinate" have occurred on timeline