subservient

3 definitions found

subservient - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
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           Scarce ever reading anything which he did not make
           subservient in one kind or other.        --Bp. Fell.
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           These ranks of creatures are subservient one to
           another.                                 --Ray.
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           Their temporal ambition was wholly subservient to their
           proselytizing spirit.                    --Burke.
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subservient - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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: serving or acting as a means or aid; "instrumental in solving
         the crime" [syn: implemental, instrumental,
         subservient]
      3: 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, subservient,
         submissive]

subservient - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  109 Moby Thesaurus words for "subservient":
     abject, accepting, accessory, acquiescent, adjuvant, agential,
     agentival, agentive, agreeable, ancillary, appurtenant, assenting,
     assistant, assisting, auxiliary, base, client, collateral, common,
     complaisant, compliable, compliant, complying, conducive,
     consenting, contributory, cowering, cringing, crouching,
     deferential, demeaning, dependent, disadvantaged, employable,
     facilitating, favoring, fawning, feudal, feudatory, forwarding,
     fostering, handy, helpful, helping, humble, ignoble, in the shade,
     inferior, infra dig, instrumental, intermediary, junior, less,
     lesser, liege, low, lower, lowly, mean, mediating, mediatorial,
     menial, ministerial, ministering, ministrant, minor, modest,
     nondissenting, nonresistant, nonresisting, nonresistive, nurtural,
     nutricial, obedient, obeisant, obsequious, on bended knee,
     ordinary, passive, promoting, prone, prostrate, resigned,
     second rank, second string, secondary, serviceable, servile,
     serving, slavish, sub, subaltern, subject, submissive, subordinate,
     subsidiary, supine, third rank, third string, tributary, truckling,
     unassertive, uncomplaining, underprivileged, unresistant,
     unresisting, useful, vassal, vulgar