- 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. Source: opted
- 2. a. Held in subjection; dependent; enslaved. Source: opted
- 3. a. Not belonging to the original root; as, a servile letter. Source: opted
- 4. a. Not itself sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceeding vowel, as e in tune. Source: opted
- 5. n. An element which forms no part of the original root; -- opposed to radical. Source: opted
- 6. adj. submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior Source: wordnet
- 7. adj. relating to or involving slaves or appropriate for slaves or servants Source: wordnet
- 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. Source: webster
- 9. An element which forms no part of the original root; -- opposedto radical. Source: adambom
- 10. j:100 a. submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior s. relating to or involving slaves or appropriate for slaves or servants Source: ecdict
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