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Synonyms for subservient
səbˈsɜr vi əntsub·servient
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
subservient
Synonyms:
compliant, controllable, deferential, docile, dutiful, gentle, manageable, obedient, submissive, tractable, yieldingAntonyms:
contumacious, disobedient, insubordinate, intractable, mutinous, rebellious, refractory, seditious, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unmanageable
Princeton's WordNet
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
Synonyms:
slavish, instrumental, submissive, implementalAntonyms:
unhelpful, unservile, unsubmissive, insubordinateimplemental, instrumental, subservientadjective
serving or acting as a means or aid
"instrumental in solving the crime"
Synonyms:
slavish, implemental, submissive, instrumentalAntonyms:
unservile, unhelpful, unsubmissive, insubordinateslavish, 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"
Synonyms:
slavish, instrumental, submissive, implementalAntonyms:
unservile, unsubmissive, unhelpful, insubordinate
Dictionary of English Synonymes
subservientadjective
Synonyms:
subordinate, inferior, subjectsubservientadjective
Synonyms:
useful, helpful, serviceable, conducive, subsidiary, ancillary, instrumental
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
subservientadjective
Synonyms:
subordinate, subject, inferior, serviceable, conducive
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "subservient":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
---|---|---|
#7995 | compliant | |
#8075 | gentle | |
#8242 | instrumental | |
#14908 | bonded | |
#18856 | yielding | |
#18868 | subordinate | |
#22418 | manageable | |
#29257 | submissive | |
#32722 | subordinated | |
#35374 | obedient | |
#36868 | controllable | |
#62620 | subservient | |
#62800 | tractable | |
#66707 | docile | |
#76427 | dutiful | |
#81901 | servile | |
#94969 | subjugated | |
#97622 | deferential | |
#112431 | slavish |
How to use subservient in a sentence?
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.
The risk is that shareholder interests will remain subservient to state interests.
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.
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.
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.
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