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subservientadjective very willing to obey someone elseShe was an equal partner in the marriage and not a subservient wife. fawning, kowtowing, obeisant, obsequious, servile, slavish, subordinateamenable, biddable, compliant, conformable, docile, law-abiding, obedient, submissive, tractableacquiescent, agreeable, amiable, duteous, dutiful, obliging, placablepassive, resigned, unresistantsoft, surrendering, yieldingdecorous, disciplined, mannerly, orderlyconstrained, curbed, inhibited, repressed, restrainedcontrollable, disciplinable, governable, handleable, manageable, tame, teachable, tractable, trainablegentle, meek, mild balky, contrary, contumacious, defiant, disobedient, froward, incompliant, insubordinate, intractable, noncompliant, obstreperous, rebel, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, unamenable, ungovernable, unruly, untoward, wayward, willful(or wilful)insurgent, mutinousdogged, hardheaded, headstrong, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, peevish, pigheaded, self-willed, stubborn, unyieldinguncontrollable, unmanageable, wilddefiant, perverse, resistantbad, disorderly, errant, misbehaving, mischievous, naughtyill-bred, undisciplineddissident, nonconformistdisrespectful, ill-mannered, impolite, impudent, insolent, rude having a less important role, job, or place as something elseThe employees used to build things by hand but now were subservient to automated equipment that handled much of production. secondary, subordinate, subsidiaryancillary, inferioraccessorial, accessory, appurtenant, auxiliary, marginal, peripheral, supplemental, supplementarybackup, makeshift, substituteadded, additional, another, furthercomplementary, contributoryadjuvant, assistant, assisting, helping, supportive, tributary all-important, essential, imperative, indispensable, integral, necessary, needed, needful, required, requisite, vitalbasic, fundamental, primary, primechief, main, principal subservient, servile, slavish, obsequious mean showing or characterized by extreme compliance or abject obedience.subservient implies the cringing manner of one very conscious of a subordinate position.domestic help was expected to be properly subservient servile suggests the mean or fawning behavior of a slave.a political boss and his entourage of servile hangers-on slavish suggests abject or debased servility.the slavish status of migrant farm workers obsequious implies fawning or sycophantic compliance and exaggerated deference of manner.waiters who are obsequious in the presence of celebrities ca. 1626 |