SUBSERVIENT


Meaning of SUBSERVIENT in English

adjective

1.

Synonyms: auxiliary , accessory, adjuvant, ancillary, appurtenant, collateral, contributory, subsidiary

2.

showing extreme compliance or abject obedience

a subservient minor bureaucrat

Synonyms: menial, obeisant, obsequious, servile, slavish

Related Word: acquiescent, compliant, resigned, submissive; cowering, cringing, fawning, truckling; abject, ignoble, mean

Idioms: as obedient as a dog

Contrasted words: aggressive; arrogant, haughty; rebellious; independent, irrepressible, uncontainable

Antonyms: domineering, overbearing

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