Synonyms for servile
ˈsɜr vɪl, -vaɪlservile

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1. servilenoun

   Antonyms:
   radical

2. servilenoun

   of or pertaining to a slave

   Antonyms:
   radical

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1. servile

   Synonyms:
   beggarly, contemptible, mean, poor, slavish, vile

   Antonyms:
   august, kinglike, kingly, magnificent, majestic, munificent, princely, regal, royal

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1. servile

   Synonyms:
   obsequious, cringing, sequacious, menial, sneaking, low, abject

   Antonyms:
   independent, fractions, refractory, recalcitrant, dogged, stubborn, defiant, rebellious

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1. servileadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   servile(a)

   Antonyms:
   free, unsubmissive, unservile

2. servile(a)adjective

   relating to or involving slaves or appropriate for slaves or servants

   "Brown's attempt at servile insurrection"; "the servile wars of Sicily"; "servile work"

   Antonyms:
   unservile, unsubmissive, free

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1. fawning

   Submitted by anonymous on November 17, 2019  

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1. servileadjective

   Synonyms:
   dependent, menial, held in bondage, held in slavery, held in subjection

2. servileadjective

   Synonyms:
   slavish, mean, base, cringing, obsequious, fawning, supple, grovelling, sycophantic, abject, low, beggarly, sneaking, base-minded, low-minded, meanly submissive

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1. servileadjective

   Synonyms:
   slavish, abject, cringing, groveling, obsequious, dependent, enslaved

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1. List of paraphrases for "servile":

   bonded, subservient, easement, servitude, enslavement

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How to use servile in a sentence?

1. Thomas Jefferson:

   Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

2. Theodore Roosevelt:

   To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

3. Rafael Cruz:

   [I’m not going to] come like a servile puppy dog and say, ‘thank you very much for maligning my wife and maligning my father,’.

4. Ted Cruz:

   That pledge was not a blanket commitment that if you go and slander and attack [ my wife ], that I'm going to nonetheless come like a servile puppy dog and say thank you very much for maligning my wife and maligning my father.

5. Greville:

   I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others.