third string
68 synonyms found
- agent
- alternative
- analogy
- back seat
- changeling
- comparison
- complement
- copy
- deputy
- double
- dummy
- eight
- eleven
- ersatz
- exchange
- fill-in
- first string
- first team
- five
- ghost
- ghostwriter
- humbleness
- humility
- juniority
- locum tenens
- lowliness
- makeshift
- metaphor
- metonymy
- minority
- next best thing
- nine
- phony
- pinch hitter
- platoon
- proxy
- replacement
- reserves
- ringer
- rowing crew
- second fiddle
- second string
- second team
- secondariness
- secondary
- servility
- spares
- squad
- stand-in
- string
- sub
- subjection
- subordinacy
- subordination
- subservience
- substituent
- substitution
- succedaneum
- superseder
- supplanter
- surrogate
- synecdoche
- understudy
- utility player
- varsity
- vicar
- vice-president
- vice-regent
Definition
(adj) :
of a decidedly lower quality or condition; a unit of players that plays behind the first and second strings; a junior varsity team