Subservient
[səb'sɜːvɪənt]
Definition
(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 .
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Definition
(a.) Fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior capacity; serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence, servile, truckling.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Subordinate, inferior, subject.[2]. Useful, helpful, serviceable, conducive, subsidiary, ancillary, instrumental.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See SUBDUE]
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Examples
- I thought our judgments were given us merely to be subservient to those of neighbours. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- It is a process of pride--I want to be proud--' 'Proud and subservient, proud and subservient, I know you,' he retorted dryly. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She could be very pleasant and flattering, almost subservient, to people she met. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The foreigner came here poor, beggarly, cringing, and subservient, ready to doff his cap to the meanest native of the household. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- In the olden days the wage of battle was almost universally decided by the strength of brawn, and the higher qualities of mind were subservient. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In the selection that he made from his sources can be traced, as in the wor k of Vitruvius and other Latin writers, the tendency to make the sciences subservient to the arts. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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