What is the meaning of subservient?

adjective

  • 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-G. B. Shaw
  • Serving or acting as a means or aid.
    • usage: "instrumental in solving the crime"
  • Abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant.
    • usage: "slavish devotion to her job ruled her life"; "a slavish yes-man to the party bosses- S. H. Adams; "she has become submissive and subservient"
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