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subterfluous |
subterfuge |
subterminal |
subterrane |
subterraneal |
subterranean
| subterraneous
| subterranity
| subterrany
| subterrene
| subterrestrial
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subterranean
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective subterranean has 2 senses
- subterranean(s = adj.all) subterraneous - being or operating under the surface of the earth; "subterranean passages"; "a subsurface flow of water"
- subterranean(s = adj.all) subterraneous, ulterior - lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed); "subterranean motives for murder"; "looked too closely for an ulterior purpose in all knowledge"
CIDE DICTIONARY
subterranean, a. [L. subterraneus; sub under + terra earth. See Terrace.].
Being or lying under the surface of the earth; situated within the earth, or under ground; as, subterranean springs; a subterraneous passage. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
subterranean, adj.
1 existing, occurring, or done under the earth's surface.
2 secret, underground, concealed.
1 existing, occurring, or done under the earth's surface.
2 secret, underground, concealed.
Derivative
subterraneously adv.
Etymology
L subterraneus (as SUB-, terra earth)
ROGET THESAURUS
subterranean
Depth
N depth, deepness, profundity, depression, hollow, pit, shaft, well, crater, gulf, bowels of the earth, botttomless pit, hell, soundings, depth of water, water, draught, submersion, plummet, sound, probe, sounding rod, sounding line, lead, bathymetry, sonar, side-looking sonar, bathometer, deep, deep seated, profound, sunk, buried, submerged, subaqueous, submarine, subterranean, subterraneous, subterrene, underground, bottomless, soundless, fathomless, unfathomed, unfathomable, abysmal, deep as a well, bathycolpian, benthal, benthopelagic, downreaching, yawning, knee deep, ankle deep, beyond one's depth, out of one's depth, over head and ears, mark twine, mark twain.
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