Usually means: Yielding to authority of others.
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  1. subservient: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. subservient: Merriam-Webster
  3. subservient: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. subservient: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. subservient: Collins English Dictionary
  6. subservient: Vocabulary.com
  7. Subservient, subservient: Wordnik
  8. subservient: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. subservient: Wiktionary
  10. subservient: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. subservient: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. subservient: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. subservient: Dictionary.com
  14. subservient: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. subservient: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Subservient: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. subservient: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. subservient: Rhymezone
  19. Subservient: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. subservient: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. subservient: FreeDictionary.org
  22. subservient: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. subservient: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. subservient: Legal dictionary

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  1. subservient: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (subservient)

▸ adjective:  Useful in an inferior capacity.
▸ adjective:  Obsequiously submissive.

Similar:
slavish, servile, subordinate, submissive, docile, subjugable, suppliant, subduable, inservient, noteful, more...

Opposite:
dominant, assertive, independent, self-reliant, autonomous

Types:
servile, obsequious, fawning, ingratiating, slimy, unctuous, more...

Phrases:
subservient tenement, make subservient, The Subservient Chicken, subservient person, secondary or subservient, more...

Adjectives:
individual, several, own, military, public, powerful, design, routine, poor, female, present

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Similar:
slavish, servile, subordinate, submissive, docile, subjugable, suppliant, subduable, inservient, noteful, more...

Opposite:
dominant, assertive, independent, self-reliant, autonomous

Types:
servile, obsequious, fawning, ingratiating, slimy, unctuous, more...

Phrases:
subservient tenement, make subservient, The Subservient Chicken, subservient person, secondary or subservient, subservient to another, more...

Adjectives:
individual, several, own, military, public, powerful, design, routine, poor, female, present

Colors:
    beige,     taupe,     gray,     off-white,     cream, more...



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