Subservient Definition & Meaning
subservient
- adjective
- compliant and obedient to authority; "editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones"-G. B. Shaw
- serving or acting as a means or aid; "instrumental in solving the crime"
- abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant; "slavish devotion to her job ruled her life"; "a slavish yes- man to the party bosses"- S.H.Adams; "she has become submissive and subservient"
"Subservient" in song lyrics
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"Of your subservient"
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"ain't a part of a lie to keep a brother subservient"
(Public Enemy f/) Paris — Coinsequences
Words that rhyme with subservient
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- What does subservient mean?
- compliant and obedient to authority; "editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones"-G. B. Shaw serving or acting as a means or aid; "instrumental in solving the crime" abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant; "slavish devotion to her job ruled her life"; "a slavish yes- man to the party bosses"- S.H.Adams; "she has become submissive and subservient"
- What part of speech is subservient?
- Subservient is an adjective.
- How many definitions does subservient have?
- Subservient has 3 definitions across 1 part of speech (adjective).