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What (who) is SERVILE - definition
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Servile; Servitude (disambiguation); Servility
servile
If you say that someone is servile, you disapprove of them because they are too eager to obey someone or do things for them. (FORMAL)
He was subservient and servile...
= obsequious
ADJ [disapproval]
• servility
She's a curious mixture of stubbornness and servility.
N-UNCOUNT
servile
a.
1.
Dependent, menial, held in bondage, held in slavery, held in subjection.
2.
Slavish, mean, base, cringing, obsequious, fawning, supple, grovelling, sycophantic, abject, low, beggarly, sneaking, base-minded, low-minded, meanly submissive.
servile
¦ adjective
1. excessively willing to serve or please others.
2. of or characteristic of a slave or slaves.
Derivatives
servilely adverb
servility noun
Origin
ME (in the sense 'suitable for a slave or for the working class'): from L. servilis, from servus 'slave'.
Examples of use of SERVILE
1. If there is no official protest we are servile, not free allies.
2. Our possibility of convincing the servile consumers to refuse being commodities and subjects is rather limited.
3. But the Old Bill are servile and cowardly when it comes to Islamist troublemakers.
4. It urged him to stop at once the aggressive and servile "cooperation" with outside forces.
5. "Pasha," he motioned with his thumb, "stand up." He rose and made an excruciatingly servile toast.