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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1. Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville:

   ...The electoral franchise has been conferred upon the Negroes in almost all the states in which slavery has been abolished, but if they come forward to vote, their lives are in danger... The same schools do not receive the children of the black and of the European. In the theaters gold cannot procure a seat for the servile race beside their former masters in the hospitals they lie apart... Not only is slavery prohibited in Ohio, but no free Negroes are allowed to enter the territory of that state or to hold property in it.

2. 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.

3. Cyril Connolly:

   The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The tragedy is that they are too many of them, and that they are aimless, having outgrown the servile functions for which they were encouraged to multiply. One day these huge crowds will have to seize power because there will be nothing else for them to do, and yet they neither demand power nor are ready to make use of it; they will learn only to be bored in a new way.

4. Anuj Somany:

   Higher an employee has servile nature, Longer the tenure s/he spends with the single private organization and Larger the chance of getting regularly the promotion.

5. William Hazlitt:

   Fashon is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath -- tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.

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