subservient

(adjective)

adjective

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

Similar word(s): subordinate

2. serving or acting as a means or aid

Similar word(s): helpful, implemental, instrumental

3. abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant

- she has become submissive and subservient

Similar word(s): servile, slavish, submissive