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subservient

English

  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”
  2. 🔊 abjectly submissive
    “slavish devotion to her job ruled her life”
  3. 🔊 serving or acting as a means or aid
    “instrumental in solving the crime”

Similar words

slavish submissive implemental instrumental abject accepting accessory acquiescent adjuvant agential agentival agentive agreeable ancillary appurtenant assenting assistant assisting auxiliary base client collateral common complaisant