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subservient |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. Scarce ever reading anything which he did not make subservient in one kind or other --Bp. Fell. These ranks of creatures are subservient one to another. --Ray. Their temporal ambition was wholly subservient to their proselytizing spirit. --Burke. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: subservient adj 1: 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 2: 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}, {submissive}]
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