Meaning & Definition of Subservient in English

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"

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"