subjacent

Examples

• All

• The connective tissue zone subjacent to the epidermis was richly vascularized.

  Academic text (2001)

• The systems of taste subjacent to cultural production are reflected in judgments of taste, and like the education system, they are hierarchical.

  Academic text (2002)

• Space law is therefore lex specialis that allows, for instance, states to place space objects into geostationary orbit above the subjacent territory of other states.

  Academic text (2017)

• But let us not stretch this symbolism; I merely wanted to point out a subjacent wealth of meaning for the imagination to work on, a kind of subtext to the poem.

  Academic text (1992)

• But bourgeois cultivations of subject formation and collective belonging in the colonies were never a secure project; as Ann Stoler argues, "subjacent histories are wedged in the folds of dominant ones."

  Academic text (2016)

• In geology class, we learned that the aquifer is subjacent to the river.

• The roots of the tree spread through the subjacent soil, providing stability.

Synonyms

S

subsurface

vssubjacent

6 6.3

Under the ground or below the top layer of a place

is about being directly beneath a specific thing rather than just below the surface

S

substratum

vssubjacent

1 8.9

A layer under something that forms its base, like rock under ruins

is the spatial notion of being directly under rather than a foundational concept

S

sublayer

vssubjacent

1 5.1

A thin part under another surface, for example under paint or soil

is broader applying to any item directly beneath not only layers

S

subterraneous

vssubjacent

8.8

Existing under the surface of the earth, like pipes or caves

is the general spatial idea of being directly under anything rather than only underground

Antonyms

O

overlying

1 5.3

A layer that lies on top of another and covers it

S

superjacent

• Specialized

9.9

Directly above something, often in a layer

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology