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English Dictionary: subservient	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for subservient
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
subservient adj 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 serving or acting as a means or aid; "instrumental in solving the crime" Synonym(s): implemental, instrumental, subservient 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]:
Subservient \Subserv"ient\, 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.