subservient 音标拼音: [səbs'ɚviənt]
a . 有帮助的,有用的,奉承的
有帮助的,有用的,奉承的
subservient adj 1 :
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 2 :
serving or acting as a means or aid ; "
instrumental in solving the crime " [
synonym : {
implemental }, {
instrumental },
{
subservient }]
3 :
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 " [
synonym : {
slavish }, {
subservient },
{
submissive }]
Subservient \
Sub *
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a . [
L .
subserviens , -
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p .
pr .
See {
Subserve }.]
Fitted or disposed to subserve ;
useful in an inferior capacity ;
serving to promote some end ;
subordinate ;
hence ,
servile ,
truckling .
[
1913 Webster ]
Scarce ever reading anything which he did not make subservient in one kind or other . --
Bp .
Fell .
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1913 Webster ]
These ranks of creatures are subservient one to another . --
Ray .
[
1913 Webster ]
Their temporal ambition was wholly subservient to their proselytizing spirit . --
Burke .
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1913 Webster ]
109 Moby Thesaurus words for "
subservient ":
abject ,
accepting ,
accessory ,
acquiescent ,
adjuvant ,
agential ,
agentival ,
agentive ,
agreeable ,
ancillary ,
appurtenant ,
assenting ,
assistant ,
assisting ,
auxiliary ,
base ,
client ,
collateral ,
common ,
complaisant ,
compliable ,
compliant ,
complying ,
conducive ,
consenting ,
contributory ,
cowering ,
cringing ,
crouching ,
deferential ,
demeaning ,
dependent ,
disadvantaged ,
employable ,
facilitating ,
favoring ,
fawning ,
feudal ,
feudatory ,
forwarding ,
fostering ,
handy ,
helpful ,
helping ,
humble ,
ignoble ,
in the shade ,
inferior ,
infra dig ,
instrumental ,
intermediary ,
junior ,
less ,
lesser ,
liege ,
low ,
lower ,
lowly ,
mean ,
mediating ,
mediatorial ,
menial ,
ministerial ,
ministering ,
ministrant ,
minor ,
modest ,
nondissenting ,
nonresistant ,
nonresisting ,
nonresistive ,
nurtural ,
nutricial ,
obedient ,
obeisant ,
obsequious ,
on bended knee ,
ordinary ,
passive ,
promoting ,
prone ,
prostrate ,
resigned ,
second rank ,
second string ,
secondary ,
serviceable ,
servile ,
serving ,
slavish ,
sub ,
subaltern ,
subject ,
submissive ,
subordinate ,
subsidiary ,
supine ,
third rank ,
third string ,
tributary ,
truckling ,
unassertive ,
uncomplaining ,
underprivileged ,
unresistant ,
unresisting ,
useful ,
vassal ,
vulgar
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