servile
adjective
1. submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior
- spoke in a servile tone
- the incurably servile housekeeper
- servile tasks such as floor scrubbing and barn work
Similar word(s): bootlicking, fawning, sycophantic, toadyish, obsequious, slavish, submissive, subservient, slavelike
2. relating to or involving slaves or appropriate for slaves or servants
- Brown's attempt at servile insurrection
- the servile wars of Sicily
- servile work
Similar word(s): unfree
Sentences with servile as an adjective:
- servile flattery; servile obedience
- a servile letter
noun
1. (grammar) An element which forms no part of the original root.