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servile

[ sur-vil, -vahyl ]

adjective

  1. slavishly submissive or obsequious; fawning:

    servile flatterers.

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  2. characteristic of, proper to, or customary for slaves; abject:

    servile obedience.

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  3. yielding slavishly; truckling (usually followed by to ).
  4. extremely imitative, especially in the arts; lacking in originality.
  5. being in slavery; oppressed.
  6. of, relating to, or involving slaves or servants.
  7. of or relating to a condition of servitude or property ownership in which a person is held in slavery or partially enslaved:

    medieval rebellions against servile laws.



servile

/ 藞s蓽藧va瑟l; s蓽藧藞v瑟l瑟t瑟 /

adjective

  1. obsequious or fawning in attitude or behaviour; submissive
  2. of or suitable for a slave
  3. existing in or relating to a state of slavery
  4. whenpostpositive, foll by to submitting or obedient
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 藞蝉别谤惫颈濒别濒测, adverb
  • servility, noun
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 蝉别谤路惫颈濒别路濒测 adverb
  • 蝉别谤路惫颈濒路颈路迟测 [sur-, vil, -i-tee], 蝉别谤路惫颈濒别路苍别蝉蝉 noun
  • 苍辞苍路蝉别谤路惫颈濒别 adjective
  • non路蝉别谤路惫颈濒别路濒测 adverb
  • 辞路惫别谤路蝉别谤路惫颈濒别 adjective
  • o路ver路蝉别谤路惫颈濒别路濒测 adverb
  • 辫蝉别耻路诲辞路蝉别谤路惫颈濒别 adjective
  • pseu路do路蝉别谤路惫颈濒别路濒测 adverb
  • 耻苍路蝉别谤路惫颈濒别 adjective
  • un路蝉别谤路惫颈濒别路濒测 adverb
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of servile1

First recorded in 1400鈥50; Middle English servil(e), serville, from Latin 蝉别谤惫墨濒颈蝉 鈥渙f a slave, slavish, servile,鈥 equivalent to serv- (stem of servus 鈥渟lave鈥) + -墨濒颈蝉 -ile; serf ( def )
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of servile1

C14: from Latin 蝉别谤惫墨濒颈蝉, from servus slave
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Synonym Study

Servile, menial, obsequious, slavish characterize one who behaves like a slave or an inferior. Servile suggests cringing, fawning, and abject submission: servile responses to questions. Menial applies to that which is considered undesirable drudgery: the most menial tasks. Obsequious implies the ostentatious subordination of oneself to the wishes of another, either from fear or from hope of gain: an obsequious waiter. Slavish stresses the dependence and labori-ous toil of one who follows or obeys without question: slavish attentiveness to orders.
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Prometheus found himself chained to the side of a Scythian mountain for disobeying the gods, who believed their strength depended on keeping people in dumb and servile awe.

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Neither do the echoes from his servile party, especially the Republicans vying to be his running mate.

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With the meeting Thursday, Mr. Macron hoped to find some unity on bolstering support for Ukraine or, short of that, to expose opponents who in his view remain too weak-kneed or servile to Moscow.

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Unquestioned leaders and servile followers tell us why the German army marched into Russia without overcoats 鈥 the leader had decreed that the campaign would be victorious by autumn, and that was that.

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In a servile bow to the crypto industry鈥檚 self-interest, they asserted that the proposed tax regulation would 鈥減revent a large swath of the digital asset ecosystem from continuing to exist in the United States.鈥

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