second string
101 synonyms found
- agent
- alternate
- alternative
- analogy
- back seat
- change
- changeling
- common
- company
- comparison
- complement
- copy
- counterfeit
- crew
- demeaning
- deputy
- disadvantaged
- double
- dummy
- eight
- eleven
- ersatz
- exchange
- fake
- fill-in
- first string
- first team
- five
- ghost
- ghostwriter
- humble
- humbleness
- humility
- in the shade
- inferior
- infra dig
- junior
- juniority
- less
- lesser
- locum tenens
- low
- lower
- lowliness
- lowly
- makeshift
- metaphor
- metonymy
- minor
- minority
- modest
- next best thing
- nine
- ordinary
- phony
- pinch hitter
- platoon
- proxy
- relief
- replacement
- reserves
- ringer
- rowing crew
- second fiddle
- second rank
- second team
- secondariness
- secondary
- servile
- servility
- spares
- squad
- stand-in
- string
- sub
- subaltern
- subjection
- subordinacy
- subordinate
- subordination
- subservience
- subservient
- substituent
- substitution
- succedaneum
- superseder
- supplanter
- surrogate
- symbol
- synecdoche
- third rank
- third string
- token
- underprivileged
- understudy
- utility player
- varsity
- vicar
- vice-president
- vice-regent
- vulgar
Definition
(adj) :
not as good; of a lower quality or condition; in sports, a unit of players that plays behind the first string
"I got a new pair of shoes, so I think I'll use the old, second string pair in my garden."