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Subservient

Subservient Meaning & Definition
Subservient Definition And Meaning

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

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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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