English to English
adjective
- Fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior capacity; serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence, servile, truckling.
source: Webster 1913
adjective satellite
- 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.
source: WordNet 3.0
- serving or acting as a means or aid
Instrumental in solving the crime.
source: WordNet 3.0
- abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant
Slavish devotion to her job ruled her life.
A slavish yes-man to the party bosses.
She has become submissive and subservient.
source: WordNet 3.0
