adj
Meaning 1
Useful in an inferior capacity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
subservient
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adj
Meaning 2
Obsequiously submissive.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A person who is subservient to another; a subordinate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adjective satellite
Meaning 4
abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant- S.H.Adams
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- slavish devotion to her job ruled her life
- a slavish yes-man to the party bosses
- she has become submissive and subservient
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: slavish, submissive
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 5
serving or acting as a means or aid
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- instrumental in solving the crime
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: implemental, instrumental
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 6
compliant and obedient to authority-G. B. Shaw
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Latin subserviens, present active of subservio (“to serve under”).
Across languages
Translations
31 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: съдействащ (sǎdejstvašt) — useful in an inferior capacity
- Bulgarian: помощен (pomošten) — useful in an inferior capacity
- Chinese Mandarin: 次要的 (cìyàode) — useful in an inferior capacity
- Chinese Mandarin: 次要 (cìyào) — useful in an inferior capacity
- Czech: podřízený — useful in an inferior capacity
- Finnish: alamainen — useful in an inferior capacity
- Malayalam: അധീനമായ (adhīnamāya) — useful in an inferior capacity
- Malayalam: വിധേയമായ (vidhēyamāya) — useful in an inferior capacity
- Occitan: asservit — useful in an inferior capacity
- Occitan: subaltèrn — useful in an inferior capacity
- Occitan: subordonat — useful in an inferior capacity
- Spanish: subordinado — useful in an inferior capacity
- Bulgarian: раболепен (rabolepen) — obsequiously submissive
- Chinese Mandarin: 恭顺 (gōngshùn) — obsequiously submissive
- Czech: servilní — obsequiously submissive
- Czech: poslušný — obsequiously submissive
- Czech: posluhující — obsequiously submissive
- Dutch: serviel — obsequiously submissive
- Dutch: onderdanig — obsequiously submissive
- Finnish: nöyristelevä — obsequiously submissive
- Finnish: alamainen — obsequiously submissive
- French: servile — obsequiously submissive
- German: lakaienhaft — obsequiously submissive
- German: servil — obsequiously submissive
- German: untertänig — obsequiously submissive
- Hindi: पराधीन (parādhīn) — obsequiously submissive
- Irish: spleách — obsequiously submissive
- Occitan: servil — obsequiously submissive
- Portuguese: subserviente — obsequiously submissive
- Russian: раболепный (rabolepnyj) — obsequiously submissive
- Spanish: servil — obsequiously submissive