subservient meaning and definition

SUBSERVIENT adjective

Definition of subservient (adjective)

1. 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
2. serving or acting as a means or aid
   • "instrumental in solving the crime"
   • synonyms: implemental, instrumental
3. abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant
   • "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"
   • synonyms: slavish, submissive