slavish

adj

1. In the manner of a slave; abject.

   ““You have freed them from higher restraint, Halbert,” answered the Abbot, “and therein taught them to rebel against your own.” / “Fear not that, Edward,” exclaimed Halbert, who never gave his brother his monastic name of Ambrosius; “none obey the command of real duty so well as those who are free from the observance of slavish bondage.””

2. Utterly faithful; totally lacking originality, creativity, or reflection.

   “a slavish reproduction”

   “slavish observation of rules”

3. (archaic)Pertaining to Slavs or the Slavic languages; Slavic.

   “Some time after he proceeded to the University at Prague, in order to prosecute his studies under Professor Czelakowsky, who had removed from Breslau to the University at Prague, as Professor of Slavish languages.”

   “The great Russians were first merely a mixture of Swedish, Finnish and Slavish peoples.”

noun

1. (uncountable)Any of various Slavic languages, especially Old Church Slavonic.