subservient
adjective | /subservient/
very willing or too willing to obey someone else; less important than something else
subservient
adjective | /subservient/
Advanced WordsHARDvery willing or too willing to obey someone else; less important than something else
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"Employees became subservient to the manager's whims to keep their jobs."
"Treating ideas as subservient to ideology undermines inquiry."
Mnemonic Trick
SUBSERVIENT → SUB + SERVE — serve under; excessively obedient or secondary.
Etymology
From Latin subservire “to serve as a subordinate.”
Used for overly submissive or subordinate attitudes.
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