Definition of servile Servile
/sɚˈvʌl/ - [servul] - ser•vile
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| servile - submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior; "spoke in a servile tone"; "the incurably servile housekeeper"; "servile tasks such as floor scrubbing and barn work" | ||
| unservile, unsubmissive not servile or submissive | ||
| bootlicking, fawning, sycophantic, toadyish attempting to win favor by flattery | ||
| obsequious attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner; "obsequious shop assistants" | ||
| slavish, submissive, subservient 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" | ||
| servile - relating to or involving slaves or appropriate for slaves or servants; "Brown's attempt at servile insurrection"; "the servile wars of Sicily"; "servile work" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- servile (Noun)
An element which forms no part of the original root. - servile (Adjective)
Of or pertaining to a slave. - servile (Adjective)
submissive or slavish.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- servile (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. - servile (a.)
Held in subjection; dependent; enslaved. - servile (a.)
Not belonging to the original root; as, a servile letter. - servile (a.)
Not itself sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceeding vowel, as e in tune. - servile (n.)
An element which forms no part of the original root; -- opposed to radical.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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servile
Resembling a vassal.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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servile
sėr′vīl, adj. pertaining to a slave or servant: slavish: meanly submissive: cringing: obedient: (gram.) secondary or subordinate.—n. a slave, a menial.—adv. Ser′vilely.—ns. Ser′vilism, the spirit of a servile class; Servil′ity (obs. Ser′vileness), state or quality of being servile: slavery: obsequiousness; Ser′ving-maid, a female domestic servant; Ser′ving-man, a male servant: a professed lover.—adj. Ser′vious, obsequious.—ns. Ser′vīte, one of a mendicant order of monks and nuns founded in Italy in the 13th century; Servit′ium (law), service; Ser′vitor, one who serves: a servant: a follower or adherent: a male servant, a menial: soldier: formerly in Oxford, an undergraduate partly supported by the college, his duty to wait on the fellows and gentlemen commoners at table; Ser′vitorship, the office or condition of a servitor; Ser′vitūde, state of being a slave: slavery: state of slavish dependence: menial service: compulsory servitude: (law) a burden affecting land or other heritable subjects, by which the proprietor is either restrained from the full use of his property or is obliged to suffer another to do certain acts upon it: service rendered in the army or navy: (obs.) servants collectively; Ser′vitūre (Milt.), servants collectively.—v.i. Ser′vulate
Military DictionaryMilitary Dictionary and Gazetteer 💥
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servile
See ROME.
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