servil

Adjective

servile (comparative more servile, superlative most servile)

1. Excessively eager to please; obsequious.
   • British “subjects” (not citizens, note) are just that: gleefully servile to the monarchy’s institutionalised inequality...2021, Ed Vulliamy, The Guardian
2. Slavish or submissive.
   • servile flattery servile obedience

   Synonyms:

   abject

   Antonyms:

   arrogant, authoritarian

   1. Of or pertaining to slaves or slavery.
3. Not belonging to the original root.
   • a servile letter
4. Not sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceding vowel, like the e in tune.

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