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servile
[ sur-vil, -vahyl ]
adjective
- slavishly submissive or obsequious; fawning:
servile flatterers.
Synonyms: obsequious
Antonyms: insubordinate
- characteristic of, proper to, or customary for slaves; abject:
servile obedience.
Synonyms: lowly, humble, obedient
Antonyms: superior, lordly, disobedient
- yielding slavishly; truckling (usually followed by to ).
- extremely imitative, especially in the arts; lacking in originality.
- being in slavery; oppressed.
- of, relating to, or involving slaves or servants.
- of or relating to a condition of servitude or property ownership in which a person is held in slavery or partially enslaved:
medieval rebellions against servile laws.
servile
/ ˈsɜːvaɪl; sɜːˈvɪlɪtɪ /
adjective
- obsequious or fawning in attitude or behaviour; submissive
- of or suitable for a slave
- existing in or relating to a state of slavery
- whenpostpositive, foll by to submitting or obedient
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Derived Forms
- ˈservilely, adverb
- servility, noun
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Other Words From
- ser·vile·ly adverb
- ser·vil·i·ty [sur-, vil, -i-tee], ser·vile·ness noun
- non·ser·vile adjective
- non·ser·vile·ly adverb
- o·ver·ser·vile adjective
- o·ver·ser·vile·ly adverb
- pseu·do·ser·vile adjective
- pseu·do·ser·vile·ly adverb
- un·ser·vile adjective
- un·ser·vile·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of servile1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of servile1
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Synonym Study
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Example Sentences
Where Don is confident and arrogant, Bob is servile and accommodating.
They are not permitted to speak of that period of colonial history when they were ruled as a servile caste by a Tutsi elite.
In memory, he was reviled as a servile race traitor, a cringing sycophant to white wealth and power.
I found that I reverted to a housewife stereotype as servile as my grandma.
It is only the servile adulation of later writers that has pictured Bruce as animated by patriotism.
This he promptly did, and in almost servile language withdrew all the opinions to which the fathers had objected.
From the freedom of nature it sinks into a servile copyism which can hardly be called art at all.
Gospodin Berkman—somehow it echoed the servile barinya with which the domestics used to address my mother.
Would those silly men, those servile votaries of fortune, those effete courtiers, have said this a week ago?
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