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

1. adjective. 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.
2. adjective. Held in subjection; dependent; enslaved.
3. adjective. Not belonging to the original root; as, a servile letter.
4. adjective. Not itself sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceeding vowel, as e in tune.
5. noun. An element which forms no part of the original root; -- opposed to radical.
6. adjective. submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior

   "spoke in a servile tone"

   "the incurably servile housekeeper"

7. adjective. relating to or involving slaves or appropriate for slaves or servants

   "Brown's attempt at servile insurrection"

   "the servile wars of Sicily"

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in servile:

leviers, relives, reviles, veilers

Common word forms

servilely, servileness

Words from these letters

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