subservient English

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What does subservient mean?

subservient

— adjective 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

— adjective (= slavish, submissive) 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

— adjective (= instrumental) serving or acting as a means or aid instrumental in solving the crime

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servile

obsequious

subject

slavish

submissive

dependent

obedient

auxiliary

subsidiary

subordinate

instrumental

implemental

helpful

abject

utile

useful

unresisting

unassertive

tractable

supplicatory

subjugated

serviceable

secondary

runtish

resistless

modest

meek

humble

handy

good

flatterer

fawning

expedient

duteous

dependent on

compliant

biddable

beneficial

benefactor

advantageous

acquiescent