Associations to the word «Subservient»

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

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley