Antonyms for subservient
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : suh b-sur-vee-uh nt |
| Phonetic Transcription : səbˈsɜr vi ənt |
Definition of subservient
Origin :- 1630s, "useful, serviceable," from Latin subservientem (nominative subserviens), present participle of subservire "assist, lend support," from sub "under" (see sub-) + servire "serve" (see serve). The meaning "slavishly obedient" is first recorded 1794.
- adj extremely compliant
- adj secondary, useful
- We must separate the fanciful from the real, or at least make the one subservient to the other.
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 8 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- I loved him so that I could crush every other feeling down, subservient to my passion.
- Extract from : « The Golden Woman » by Ridgwell Cullum
- Marta by the trembling, subservient Archbishop of his creation.
- Extract from : « Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard » by Joseph Conrad
- Surely the stomach should be subservient to the mind; but it isn't.
- Extract from : « Molly Bawn » by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton
- Politics are no métier for a woman, or they should be subservient to something else.
- Extract from : « Mary Gray » by Katharine Tynan
- He is supreme; there is none like him, and the spirits are subservient to his will.
- Extract from : « The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria » by Morris Jastrow
- I will be subservient to thy greatness, I will exalt thy divinity.
- Extract from : « The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria » by Morris Jastrow
- It will be subservient to the law of literature, which formerly received the law from it.
- Extract from : « Notre-Dame de Paris » by Victor Hugo
- The lawyers had been subservient beyond all other classes to the Crown.
- Extract from : « History of the English People, Volume V (of 8) » by John Richard Green
- The senate, in a word, though slavish and subservient, is not friendly.
- Extract from : « Aurelian » by William Ware
Synonyms for subservient
- a slave to
- abject
- accessory
- acquiescent
- adjuvant
- ancillary
- appurtenant
- at one's beck and call
- at one's mercy
- auxiliary
- bootlicking
- bush-league
- collateral
- conducive
- contributory
- cowering
- cringing
- dancing
- deferential
- docile
- fawning
- flunky
- helpful
- ignoble
- in one's clutches
- in one's pocket
- in one's power
- inferior
- instrumental
- mean
- menial
- minor
- obeisant
- obsequious
- resigned
- serviceable
- servile
- slavish
- subject
- submissive
- subordinate
- subsidiary
- supplemental
- supplementary
- sycophantic
- under one's thumb
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