servile

servile
adj
1. slavish, obsequious, Obs. obse-quent, subservient, menial, Obs., Rare. vernile; submissive, docile, unassertive, compliant, acquiescent, deferential, Tomish, Uncle Tomish, tractable, mealy-mouthed; prostrate, obeisant, on one's knees; groveling, crawling, creeping, crouching, slithering; squirming, cringing, cowering; whining, whimpering, sniveling.
2. sycophantic, sycophantical, sycophantish, fawning, flattering, truckling, wheedling, toadying, toady-ish, ingratiating, timeserving, Sl. bootlicking, Sl. footlicking, Inf. apple-polishing, Sl. brown-nosing, Obs., Rare. blandiloquous; buttery, candied, unctuous, oily, honey-mouthed, smooth-talking, sweet-talking, Rare. blandiloquent.
3. abject, humble, poor, meek, lowly, beggarly, beggared; base, base-spirited, mean, mean-spirited, low, vile, ignoble, inglorious, dishonorable, discreditable, disreputable.
4. unoriginal, lacking originality, unimaginative, prosaic, imitative; inflexible, rigid, stiff; (all in a negative sense) strict, close, exact, undeviating, direct, strightforward, faithful, literal.
5. opressed, suppressed, kept down, downtrodden, Archaic. downtrod; subjugated, in subjection, in bondage, in bonds, in chains, captive, in captivity, enslaved, in slavery, enthralled.

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