subservient
[adjective]
Synonyms: servile, abject, deferential, obsequious, slavish, submissive, sycophantic

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Antonyms: domineering, overbearing
Contrasted words: aggressive, arrogant, haughty, rebellious, independent, irrepressible, uncontainable
Related Idioms: as obedient as a dog
Related Words: acquiescent, compliant, resigned, submissive, cowering, cringing, fawning, truckling, abject, ignoble, mean

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

sub‧ser‧vi‧ent /səbˈsɜːviənt $ -ˈsɜːr-/ adjective
[Date: 1600-1700; Language: Latin; Origin: present participle of subservire 'to serve, be subservient', from servire 'to serve']

1. always obeying another person and doing everything they want you to do – used when someone seems too weak and powerless
subservient to
Don remained entirely subservient to his father.
subservient role/position
His wife refused to accept a traditional subservient role.

2. formal less important than something else Synonym : subordinate
subservient to
the rights of the individual are made subservient to the interests of the state
—subserviently adverb
—subservience noun [uncountable]

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