Found 2 items, similar to Subservient.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: subservient
subservient
adj 1: compliant and obedient to authority;
“editors and
journalists who express opinions in print that are
opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and
replaced by subservient ones”-G. B. Shaw
2: abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant;
“slavish devotion to her job ruled her life”;
“a slavish
yes-man to the party bosses”- S.H.Adams;
“she has become
submissive and subservient” [syn:
slavish,
submissive]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Subservient
Subservient
\Sub*serv"i*ent\, a. [L. subserviens, -entis, p. pr.
See
Subserve.]
Fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior
capacity; serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence,
servile, truckling.
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Scarce ever reading anything which he did not make
subservient in one kind or other. --Bp. Fell.
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These ranks of creatures are subservient one to
another. --Ray.
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Their temporal ambition was wholly subservient to their
proselytizing spirit. --Burke.
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