Antonyms for subservient
səbˈsɜr vi əntsub·servient

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1. subservient

   Antonyms:
   contumacious, disobedient, insubordinate, intractable, mutinous, rebellious, refractory, seditious, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unmanageable

   Synonyms:
   compliant, controllable, deferential, docile, dutiful, gentle, manageable, obedient, submissive, tractable, yielding

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1. subservientadjective

   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

   Antonyms:
   unhelpful, unservile, unsubmissive, insubordinate

   Synonyms:
   slavish, instrumental, submissive, implemental

2. implemental, instrumental, subservientadjective

   serving or acting as a means or aid

   "instrumental in solving the crime"

   Antonyms:
   unservile, unhelpful, unsubmissive, insubordinate

   Synonyms:
   slavish, implemental, submissive, instrumental

3. slavish, subservient, submissiveadjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   unservile, unsubmissive, unhelpful, insubordinate

   Synonyms:
   slavish, instrumental, submissive, implemental

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1. subservientadjective

   Synonyms:
   subordinate, subject, inferior, serviceable, conducive

How to use subservient in a sentence?

1. Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan:

   My creator cannot create me in a way that I am subservient to another human being. My creator cannot make me secondary to a man just because I'm a woman, that gave me strength to question patriarchal attitudes. I'm equal to anybody in this world.

2. Ben Carson:

   You know Obamacare is really, I think, the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery, and it is in a way, it is slavery in a way, because it is making all of us subservient to the government, and it was never about health care. It was about control.

3. Georgina Wright:

   The pressure on Brussels is enormous, if Joe Biden are sincerely going to be a major geopolitical power that isn't subservient to America, the 27 member states will need to be more united than ever.

4. Kate McElwee:

   Catholic Church is Catholic Church, and we believe that Catholic Church could restore Catholic Church moral voice and credibility if Catholic Church practiced gender equity. Equality for women and girls changes the world, it's easy for some of us in Western countries to opt out of the church's powers, but in a lot of communities, Catholic Church runs the only hospital or the only school. The theology that teaches that girls are somehow subservient or the complements to men filters through, and that gets taught around the world.

5. Lisa Haisha:

   Once we go through the S.O.U.L. practice, we start to understand the narratives and false beliefs we have in our heads from our childhoods that no longer serve us. We’re then able to see the world through a new framework: We move from Victim to Manifester. We put a leash on our dominant Imposter and let it serve us, instead of being subservient to it.

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