Definitions for: Servile

[adj] submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior; "spoke in a servile tone"; "the incurably servile housekeeper"; "servile tasks such as floor scrubbing and barn work"
[adj] pertaining to or involving slaves; "the servile wars of Sicily"

Webster (1913) Definition: Serv"ile, a. [L. servile, fr. servus a servant or
slave: cf. F. servile. See Serve.]
1. Of or pertaining to a servant or slave; befitting a
servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence,
meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning; as,
servile flattery; servile fear; servile obedience.

She must bend the servile knee. --Thomson.

Fearing dying pays death servile breath. --Shak.

2. Held in subjection; dependent; enslaved.

Even fortune rules no more, O servile land! --Pope.

3. (Gram.)
(a) Not belonging to the original root; as, a servile
letter.
(b) Not itself sounded, but serving to lengthen the
preceeding vowel, as e in tune.

Serv"ile, n. (Gram.)
An element which forms no part of the original root; --
opposed to radical.

Synonyms: obsequious, slavelike, slavish, submissive, subservient

Antonyms: unservile, unsubmissive

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