Associations to the word «Subservient»

SUBSERVIENT, adjective. Useful in an inferior capacity.

SUBSERVIENT, adjective. Obsequiously submissive.

SUBSERVIENT, adjective. 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.

SUBSERVIENT, adjective. Serving or acting as a means or aid; "instrumental in solving the crime".

SUBSERVIENT, adjective. 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".