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subservient 音标拼音: [səbs'ɚviənt]
a. 有帮助的,有用的,奉承的 有帮助的,有用的,奉承的 subservient adj 1: 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: serving or acting as a means or aid; "instrumental in solving the crime" [synonym: {implemental}, {instrumental}, {subservient}] 3: 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" [synonym: {slavish}, {subservient}, {submissive}] Subservient \Sub*serv"i*ent\, a. [L. subserviens, -entis, p. pr. See {Subserve}.] Fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior capacity; serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence, servile, truckling. [1913 Webster] Scarce ever reading anything which he did not make subservient in one kind or other. --Bp. Fell. [1913 Webster] These ranks of creatures are subservient one to another. --Ray. [1913 Webster] Their temporal ambition was wholly subservient to their proselytizing spirit. --Burke. [1913 Webster] 109 Moby Thesaurus words for "subservient":
abject, accepting, accessory, acquiescent, adjuvant, agential, agentival, agentive, agreeable, ancillary, appurtenant, assenting, assistant, assisting, auxiliary, base, client, collateral, common, complaisant, compliable, compliant, complying, conducive, consenting, contributory, cowering, cringing, crouching, deferential, demeaning, dependent, disadvantaged, employable, facilitating, favoring, fawning, feudal, feudatory, forwarding, fostering, handy, helpful, helping, humble, ignoble, in the shade, inferior, infra dig, instrumental, intermediary, junior, less, lesser, liege, low, lower, lowly, mean, mediating, mediatorial, menial, ministerial, ministering, ministrant, minor, modest, nondissenting, nonresistant, nonresisting, nonresistive, nurtural, nutricial, obedient, obeisant, obsequious, on bended knee, ordinary, passive, promoting, prone, prostrate, resigned, second rank, second string, secondary, serviceable, servile, serving, slavish, sub, subaltern, subject, submissive, subordinate, subsidiary, supine, third rank, third string, tributary, truckling, unassertive, uncomplaining, underprivileged, unresistant, unresisting, useful, vassal, vulgar
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