Antonyms for servile

Grammar : Adj

Spell : sur-vil, -vahyl

Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɜr vɪl, -vaɪl

Definition of servile

Origin : late 14c., from Latin servilis "of a slave" (as in Servile Wars, name given to the slave revolts in the late Roman Republic), also "slavish, servile," from servus "slave" (see serve (v.)). Earliest sense was legal, servile work being forbidden on the Sabbath; sense of "cringing, fawning" first recorded c.1600.

adj grovelling, subservient

Example sentences :

My brother was servile; he has attached himself to the retinue of a wealthy Baroness.
Extract from : « City of Endless Night » by Milo Hastings

Base hearts it only hardens, making those who were mean and servile, mean and proud.
Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles

Art so followed is the most servile indolence in which life can be wasted.
Extract from : « Modern Painters Volume I (of V) » by John Ruskin

The servile spouters in the land are as plenty as summer flies.
Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani

Now both these are branches of the servile or ministerial art.
Extract from : « Statesman » by Plato

Yet though he sat at their feet, it was as no servile disciple.
Extract from : « Holbein » by Beatrice Fortescue

Aught else than servile obedience in accomplishing the mandates of those in power?
Extract from : « Mysticism and its Results » by John Delafield

The submission appears to have been abject and servile in the extreme.
Extract from : « Jesus the Christ » by James Edward Talmage

For the purpose of deceiving "Slim" he must keep a mask of servile fear on his face.
Extract from : « Spring Street » by James H. Richardson

Tunis as much as Algiers was the object of the servile dread of Europe.
Extract from : « The Story of the Barbary Corsairs » by Stanley Lane-Poole

Synonyms for servile

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