subservient[adjective]Synonyms: servile, abject, deferential, obsequious, slavish, submissive, sycophantic
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 : subordinatesubservient to
the rights of the individual are made subservient to the interests of the state—subserviently adverb—subservience noun [uncountable] [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲