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. [1913 Webster] Scarce ever reading anything which he did not make subservient in one kind or other. --Bp. Fell. [1913 Webster] These ranks of creatures are subservient one to another. --Ray. [1913 Webster] Their temporal ambition was wholly subservient to their proselytizing spirit. --Burke. [1913 Webster]