subservient
adjective
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 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
Related & opposite
- subservientness derivation
- subordinate similar to
Sense 2 adjective
serving or acting as a means or aid
instrumental in solving the crime
Related & opposite
- instrument derivation
- implement derivation
- instrumentation derivation
- instrumentality derivation
- subserve derivation
- helpful similar to
Sense 3 adjective
abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant
slavish devotion to her job ruled her life
Related & opposite
- submissiveness derivation
- obsequiousness derivation
- subservientness derivation
- submit derivation
- servile similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | subservientness |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | subordinate |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | instrument |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | implement |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | instrumentation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | instrumentality |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | subserve |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | helpful |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | submissiveness |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | obsequiousness |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | subservientness |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | submit |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | servile |