Servile vs. Subservient — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Servile and Subservient
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Servile
Abjectly submissive; slavish.
Subservient
Subordinate in capacity or function.
Servile
Of or suitable to a slave or servant.
Subservient
Obsequious; servile.
Servile
Of or relating to servitude or forced labor.
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Subservient
Useful as a means or an instrument; serving to promote an end.
Servile
Of or pertaining to a slave.
Subservient
Useful in an inferior capacity.
Servile
Slavish or submissive.
Servile flattery
Servile obedience
Subservient
Obsequiously submissive.
Servile
(grammar) Not belonging to the original root.
A servile letter
Subservient
Fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior capacity; serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence, servile, truckling.
Scarce ever reading anything which he did not make subservient in one kind or other.
These ranks of creatures are subservient one to another.
Their temporal ambition was wholly subservient to their proselytizing spirit.
Servile
(grammar) Not sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceding vowel, like the e in tune.
Subservient
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
Servile
(grammar) An element which forms no part of the original root.
Subservient
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
Servile
A slave; a menial.
Servile
Of or pertaining to a servant or slave; befitting a servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence, meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning; as, servile flattery; servile fear; servile obedience.
She must bend the servile knee.
Fearing dying pays death servile breath.
Servile
Held in subjection; dependent; enslaved.
Even fortune rules no more, O servile land!
Servile
Not belonging to the original root; as, a servile letter.
Servile
An element which forms no part of the original root; - opposed to radical.
Servile
Pertaining to or involving slaves;
The servile wars of Sicily
Servile
Submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior;
Spoke in a servile tone
The incurably servile housekeeper
Servile tasks such as floor scrubbing and barn work
Servile
Involving slaves;
Brown's attempt at servile insurrection
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