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- Dictionarysubservient/səbˈsəːvɪənt/
adjective
- 1. prepared to obey others unquestioningly: "she was subservient to her parents" Similar Opposite
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willing to do what other people want, or considering your wishes as less important than those of other people: Women were expected to adopt a subservient role / position. His other interests were subservient to his compelling passion for art. Synonyms. servile disapproving. slavish disapproving.
How Should You Use subservient? useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate; serving to promote some end; obsequiously submissive : truckling… See the full definition
Subservient definition: serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate. . See examples of SUBSERVIENT used in a sentence.
willing to do what other people want, or considering your wishes as less important than those of other people: Women were expected to adopt a subservient role / position. His other interests were subservient to his compelling passion for art. Synonyms. servile disapproving. slavish disapproving.
Subservient means "compliant," "obedient," "submissive," or having the qualities of a servant. Something that's subservient has been made useful, or put into the service of, something else.
If you treat one thing as subservient to another, you treat it as less important than the other thing.
a willingness to do what other people want, or the act of considering your wishes as less important than those of other people: She lives in total subservience to the men in her family. After years of subservience to the West, artists returned to Indian themes in their literature, theatre, and music. See.
