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Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Subordinate in capacity or function.
- adjective Obsequious; servile.
- adjective Useful as a means or an instrument; serving to promote an end.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Useful as an instrument or means to promote an end or purpose; serviceable; being of service.
- Acting as a subordinate instrument; fitted or disposed to serve in an inferior capacity; subordinate; hence, of persons and conduct, truckling; obsequious.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior capacity; serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence, servile, truckling.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Useful in an
inferior capacity . - adjective
Obsequiously submissive .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant
- adjective serving or acting as a means or aid
- adjective compliant and obedient to authority
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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December 14th, 2008 at 6: 23 pm yes zakaria is what i would call in urdu a chudoo, politely translated to 'subservient' - just towing the official line. have you ever heard of someone saying at the introduction
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The author is Delhi based Research Scholar in International Studies and can be reached at December 14th, 2008 at 6: 23 pm yes zakaria is what i would call in urdu a chudoo, politely translated to 'subservient' - just towing the official line. have you ever heard of someone saying at the introduction
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- Source: Jack Straw: Muslim courts will ALWAYS remain subservient to English law, James Slack, Daily Mail (UK), Oct. 30, 2008 — Summarized by Religion News Blog
Jack Straw: Muslim courts will always remain subservient to English law 2008
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The way I interpret the word subservient my answer is no, I do not think subservience is equivalent to respect.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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The way I interpret the word subservient my answer is no, I do not think subservience is equivalent to respect.
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Women, however, have conventionally been known as subservient and so the muscular look has never been a popular one toned, maybe, but certainly not muscular.
"The man of the moment is an urchin, a wraith or an underfed runt." Ann Althouse 2008
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synonyms (109)
Words with the same meaning
- 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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