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English Dictionary: Slavish by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Slavish
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
slavish
adj
  1. blindly imitative; "a slavish copy of the original"
  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"
    Synonym(s): slavish, subservient, submissive
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Slavish \Slav"ish\, a.
      Of or pertaining to slaves; such as becomes or befits a
      slave; servile; excessively laborious; as, a slavish life; a
      slavish dependance on the great. -- {Slav"ish*ly}, adv. --
      {Slav"ish*ness}, n.
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