subservient
subservient is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior capacity; serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence, servile, truckling. Scarce ever reading anything which he did not make subservient in one kind or other. Bp. Fell. These ranks of creatures are subservient one to another. Ray. Their temporal ambition was wholly subservient to their proselytizing spirit. Burke.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- accoucheur
- accoucheuse
- affect
- agency
- aid
- along
- applicability
- aptitude
- aptness
- assistance
- bend
- bent
- bias
- bid
- calculated
- carry
- cast
- conatus
- conduce
- conducive
- conduciveness
- contribute
- crook
- dint
- direction
- dispose
- drift
- expedient
- fair
- for
- foul
- grain
- gravitate
- hand
- handmaid
- hereby
- hook
- humor
- idiocrasy
- idiosyncrasy
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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