'Subservient' definitions:
Definition of 'subservient'
From: WordNet
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
Serving or acting as a means or aid; "instrumental in solving the crime" [syn: implemental, instrumental, subservient]
adjective
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]
Definition of 'Subservient'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Scarce ever reading anything which he did not make subservient in one kind or other. --Bp. Fell. [1913 Webster]
- These ranks of creatures are subservient one to another. --Ray. [1913 Webster]
- Their temporal ambition was wholly subservient to their proselytizing spirit. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'subservient'
From: GCIDE
- low-level \low-level\ adj.
- 1. weak; not intense; as, low-level radiation. [WordNet 1.5]
- 2. lower in rank or importance. [Narrower terms: {adjunct, assistant}; {associate(prenominal) ; {buck ; {deputy(prenominal), proxy(prenominal) ; {subject, dependent ; {subservient ] [Narrower terms: {under(prenominal) ; {ruled ; {secondary ] Also See inferior, subordinate. Antonym: dominant.
- Syn: subordinate. [WordNet 1.5]
- 3. at a low level in rank or importance; as, a low-level job; low-level discussions. [WordNet 1.5]
- 4. occurring at a relatively low altitude; as, a low-level strafing run; low-level bombing. [WordNet 1.5] Lowlihood
Synonyms of 'subservient'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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