subservient - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'subservient' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Subservient

[ a.]

- Fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior capacity; serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence, servile, truckling.

1 . subservient

[ s]

Meaning (1):
- abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant

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Meaning (2):
- compliant and obedient to authority

Example in sentence:

editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones

Meaning (3):
- serving or acting as a means or aid

Example in sentence:

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