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Servile vs. Subservient — What's the Difference?

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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