servile — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Excessively eager to please; obsequious.

   Examples

   British “subjects” (not citizens, note) are just that: gleefully servile to the monarchy’s institutionalised inequality...

2. Slavish or submissive.

   Synonyms

   abject

   Antonyms

   arrogantauthoritarian

   Examples

   servile flattery servile obedience

   Even fortune rules no more, O servile land!

3. Slavish or submissive. Of or pertaining to slaves or slavery.

4. Not belonging to the original root.

   Examples

   a servile letter

5. Not sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceding vowel, like the e in tune.

Noun

1. An element which forms no part of the original root.

2. A slave; a menial.

Adjective

1. submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior

   Antonyms

   unservile

   Examples

   spoke in a servile tone

   the incurably servile housekeeper

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   servile tasks such as floor scrubbing and barn work

2. relating to or involving slaves or appropriate for slaves or servants

   Examples

   Brown's attempt at servile insurrection

   the servile wars of Sicily

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   servile work