Definitions for subservient
səbˈsɜr vi əntsub·servient

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:2.5 / 2 votes

1. subservientadjective

   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"-G. B. Shaw

2. implemental, instrumental, subservientadjective

   serving or acting as a means or aid

   "instrumental in solving the crime"

3. slavish, subservient, submissiveadjective

   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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. subservientadjective

   Useful in an inferior capacity.

2. subservientadjective

   Obsequiously submissive.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Subservientadjective

   Subordinate; instrumentally useful.

   Etymology: subserviens, Latin.

   Philosophers and common heathens believed one God, to whom all things are referred; but under this God they worshipped many inferior and subservient gods. Edward Stillingfleet.

   These ranks of creatures are subservient one to another, and the most of them serviceable to man. John Ray.

   While awake, we feel none of those motions continually made in the disposal of the corporeal principles subservient herein. Nehemiah Grew.

   Sense is subservient unto fancy, fancy unto intellect. Nehemiah Grew.

   We are not to consider the world as the body of God; he is an uniform being, void of organs, members or parts, and they are his creatures subordinate to him, and subservient to his will. Isaac Newton, Opticks.

   Most criticks, fond of some subservient art,
   Still make the whole depend upon a part;
   They talk of principles, but notions prize,
   And all to one lov’d folly sacrifice. Alexander Pope.

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1. subservient

   Subservient generally refers to someone or something that is excessively willing to yield to the authority or will of others, obedient to an inferior degree, or serving in a subordinate position or function.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Subservientadjective

   fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior capacity; serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence, servile, truckling

2. Etymology: [L. subserviens, -entis, p. pr. See Subserve.]

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of subservient in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of subservient in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of subservient in a Sentence

1. William Frank Buckley, Jr.:

   I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.

2. Alex Capri:

   The risk is that shareholder interests will remain subservient to state interests.

3. Georgina Wright:

   The pressure on Brussels is enormous, if Joe Biden are sincerely going to be a major geopolitical power that isn't subservient to America, the 27 member states will need to be more united than ever.

4. Ben Carson:

   You know Obamacare is really, I think, the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery, and it is in a way, it is slavery in a way, because it is making all of us subservient to the government, and it was never about health care. It was about control.

5. Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan:

   My creator cannot create me in a way that I am subservient to another human being. My creator cannot make me secondary to a man just because I'm a woman, that gave me strength to question patriarchal attitudes. I'm equal to anybody in this world.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=subservient
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Subservient
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=subservient
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/subservient