| Pronunciation: | | sub'surveeunt
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- [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
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SUBSERVIENT is a 11 letter word that starts with S. |
| | Synonyms: | | servile, slavish, submissive, subordinate |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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