About The Word Subservient
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Subservient
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What's The Definition Of Subservient?
[adj] 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"
[adj] 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 Synonyms | Synonyms for Subservient: servile | slavish | submissive | subordinate Related Terms | Find terms related to Subservient: See Also | Subservient In Webster's Dictionary \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.
Scarce ever reading anything which he did not make
subservient in one kind or other. --Bp. Fell.
These ranks of creatures are subservient one to
another. --Ray.
Their temporal ambition was wholly subservient to their
proselytizing spirit. --Burke.
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