Definitions for: 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

Webster (1913) 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.

Synonyms: servile, slavish, submissive, subordinate

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