subservient — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Useful in an inferior capacity.

2. Obsequiously submissive.

   Examples

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   Sansa takes her place as ruler of the North, a free and independent land no longer subservient to anywhere else. And Arya does what she’s always done best: Make her own way, literally leaving everything she knows behind to see what’s over the next horizon.

Noun

1. A person who is subservient to another; a subordinate.

   Related words

   obedientsubordinate

   Examples

   James Harrison, the tenant, was one of his subservients, chosen by him in consequence of his austere piety, and great influence with his sect […]

Adjective

1. compliant and obedient to authority

2. serving or acting as a means or aid

   Synonyms

   implementalinstrumental

   Examples

   instrumental in solving the crime

3. abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant

   Synonyms

   slavishsubmissive

   Examples

   slavish devotion to her job ruled her life

   she has become submissive and subservient