subservient

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Definition of subservient

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Useful in an inferior capacity.
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adj

  1. Useful in an inferior capacity.
  2. Obsequiously submissive.
    “Sansa takes her place as ruler of the North, a free and independent land no longer subservient to anywhere else. And Arya does what she’s always done best: Make her own way, literally leaving everything she knows behind to see what’s over the next horizon.”

noun

  1. A person who is subservient to another; a subordinate.
    “James Harrison, the tenant, was one of his subservients, chosen by him in consequence of his austere piety, and great influence with his sect […]”

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Etymology

From Latin subserviens, present active of subservio (“to serve under”).

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