Dictionary Entry
subservient
subservient is a 11-letter English word with 4 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior capacity; serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence, servile, truckling. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
11 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 20 · 4 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior capacity; serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence, servile, truckling.
- 2adjective
abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant- S.H.Adams
"slavish devotion to her job ruled her life"
"a slavish yes-man to the party bosses"
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- 3adjective
serving or acting as a means or aid
"instrumental in solving the crime"
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- 4adjective
compliant and obedient to authority-G. B. Shaw
"editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones"
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