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Definition of Subservient
1. Adjective. 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"
2. Adjective. Serving or acting as a means or aid. "Instrumental in solving the crime"
Similar to: Helpful
Derivative terms: Implement, Instrument, Instrumentality, Instrumentality, Subserve
3. Adjective. Abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant. "She has become submissive and subservient"
Similar to: Servile
Derivative terms: Submissiveness, Submit, Subservience, Subservientness
Definition of Subservient
1. a. Fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior capacity; serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence, servile, truckling.
Definition of Subservient
1. Adjective. Useful in an inferior capacity. ¹
2. Adjective. Obsequiously submissive. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Subservient
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subservient
Literary usage of Subservient
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind by Dugald Stewart (1822)
"Important Uses to which the power of Imagination is subservient. THE faculty of
Imagination is the great spring of human activity, and the principal source ..."
2. The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza by Benedictus de Spinoza, Robert Harvey Monroe Elwes (1891)
"r~PHOSE who know not that philosophy and reason are dis- J- tinct, dispute whether
Scripture should be made subservient to reason, or reason to Scripture: ..."
3. English Synonymes Explained: In Alphabetical Order ; with Copious by George Crabb (1883)
"It is not necessary for any one to act the degrading part of being subservient
to another. Contemplate the world аз subject to the Divine dominion. к, ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1846)
"... from the highest to the lowest, must have a tendency to render them habitually
and implicitly subservient to the impulses uf popular opinion or popular ..."
5. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"interest, not upon the principles of a just union between the two kingdoms, but
by rendering the weaker subservient to the power and wealth of the stronger. ..."
6. The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy by William Paley (1827)
"OF POPULATION AND PROVISION ; AND OF AGRICULTURE AND COMMERCE, AS subservient
THERETO. THE final view of all rational politics is, to produce the greatest ..."
7. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"To serve in an inferior capacity ; be subservient or subordinate. Not made to rule,
... The state or character of being subservient, in any sense. ..."
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