Dictionary Entry
servile
servile is a 7-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Of or pertaining to a servant or slave; befitting a servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence, meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning; as, servile flattery; servile fear; servile obedience. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Of or pertaining to a servant or slave; befitting a servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence, meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning; as, servile flattery; servile fear; servile obedience.
- 2adjective
Held in subjection; dependent; enslaved.
- 3adjective
Not belonging to the original root; as, a servile letter.
- 4adjective
Not itself sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceeding vowel, as e in tune.
- 5noun
An element which forms no part of the original root; -- opposed to radical.
- 6adjective
submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior
"spoke in a servile tone"
"the incurably servile housekeeper"
- 7adjective
relating to or involving slaves or appropriate for slaves or servants
"Brown's attempt at servile insurrection"
"the servile wars of Sicily"
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