Thesaurus: servile

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1. a. 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.
2. a. Held in subjection; dependent; enslaved.
3. a. Not belonging to the original root; as, a servile letter.
4. a. Not itself sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceeding vowel, as e in tune.
5. n. An element which forms no part of the original root; -- opposed to radical.
6. adj. submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior
7. adj. relating to or involving slaves or appropriate for slaves or servants
8. 1. 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. Thomson. Fearing dying pays death servile breath. Shak. 2. Held in subjection; dependent; enslaved. Even fortune rules no more, O servile land! Pope. 3. (Gram.) (a) Not belonging to the original root; as, a servile letter. (b) Not itself sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceeding vowel, as e in tune. An element which forms no part of the original root; -- opposed to radical.
9. An element which forms no part of the original root; -- opposedto radical.
10. j:100 a. submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior s. relating to or involving slaves or appropriate for slaves or servants