subservient
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