servile
adj/ˈsɜː(ɹ)ˌvaɪl/UK/ˈsəɹ.vəl/US
Etymology
Definitions
Excessively eager to please
Excessively eager to please; obsequious.
- British “subjects” (not citizens, note) are just that: gleefully servile to the monarchy’s institutionalised inequality...
Slavish or submissive.
- servile flattery servile obedience
- Even fortune rules no more, O servile land!
Not belonging to the original root.
- a servile letter
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Not sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceding vowel, like the e in tune.
An element which forms no part of the original root.
A slave
A slave; a menial.
The neighborhood
- synonymabject
- synonymduteous
- synonymmeek
- synonymservile
- synonymslavish
- synonymsubmissive
- synonymsubservient
- antonymarrogant
- antonymbossy
- antonymradical
- neighborserve
- neighborservant
- neighborslave
- neighborBDSM
- neighborsadomasochism
- neighborsycophant
- neighborobedient
- neighboringratiating
- neighborparasitical
- neighborsycophantic
- neighborcrawling
- neighborcringing
Derived
nonservile, overservile, semiservile, servile arts, servilely, servileness, servilism, servility, servilize, unservile
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA