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