subjected
Made to endure
Subjected is the past tense of subject, meaning to cause someone to undergo or experience something, usually unpleasant: The prisoners were subjected to harsh conditions.
It carries a sense of being forced to endure rather than choosing to: We were subjected to a two-hour lecture on workplace safety.
The word implies vulnerability or powerlessness in the face of what's imposed.
Brought under control
- oppressedTreated with cruel control
- enslavedMade someone's property
- conqueredDefeated and took control
- colonizedEstablished foreign control over
persecuted · tyrannized · dominated · exploited · victimized · marginalized · disenfranchised · repressed
One lower in rank
- subservientExcessively eager to obey
- compliantYielding to others' wishes
- obedientFollowing commands willingly
- yieldingBending under pressure
docile · deferential · acquiescent · beholden · answerable · accountable · dependent · bound
Out in open
- vulnerableOpen to attack
- susceptibleEasily influenced or harmed
- openNot closed
- liableLegally responsible for something
prone · unprotected · at risk · defenseless · unshielded · unguarded · imperiled · endangered
Systematic investigation procedure
- variablesChangeable elements in equations
- laboratoryFacility for scientific investigation
- placeboInactive therapeutic substitute
- clinicalEmotionally detached, medically precise
trials · study · research · control · measurement · protocol · double-blind · sample
subjugated
Brought under control
- oppressedTreated with cruel control
- enslavedMade someone's property
- conqueredDefeated and took control
colonized · persecuted · tyrannized · dominated · exploited · victimized · marginalized · disenfranchised · repressed · suppressed
subordinate
One lower in rank
- subservientExcessively eager to obey
- compliantYielding to others' wishes
- obedientFollowing commands willingly
yielding · docile · deferential · acquiescent · beholden · answerable · accountable · dependent · bound · obligated
exposed
Out in open
- vulnerableOpen to attack
- susceptibleEasily influenced or harmed
- openNot closed
liable · prone · unprotected · at risk · defenseless · unshielded · unguarded · imperiled · endangered · helpless
experiment
Systematic investigation procedure
- variablesChangeable elements in equations
- laboratoryFacility for scientific investigation
- placeboInactive therapeutic substitute
clinical · trials · study · research · control · measurement · protocol · double-blind · sample · test
- Hierarchy termspecking order, junior, chain of command, secondary, totem pole
subjectedliberated
Released from confinement
freed · emancipated · independent · autonomous · sovereign
- change the subjectShift discussion elsewhere
- core subjectsRequired academic disciplines
- subject toConditionally governed by
- school subjectsAreas of academic study
- subject to changeLiable to modification
- subject lineEmail's topic summary
subject, subjects, subjective, subjection, subjecting, subjectivity, subjectivism