Associations to the word «Subservient»
Noun
Wiktionary
SUBSERVIENT, adjective. Useful in an inferior capacity.
SUBSERVIENT, adjective. Obsequiously submissive.
Dictionary definition
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.
SUBSERVIENT, adjective. Serving or acting as a means or aid; "instrumental in solving the crime".
SUBSERVIENT, adjective. 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".
Wise words
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more
value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an
idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words,
but a great deal in a few.