subservient
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subservient
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From Latin subserviens, present active of subservio (“to serve under”).
adjective more subservient · most subservient
- Useful in an inferior capacity.
- Obsequiously submissive. Sansa takes her place as ruler of the North, a free and independent land no longer subservient to anywhere else. And Arya does what she’s always done best: Make her own way, literally leaving everything she knows behind to see what’s over the next horizon.
noun subservients
- A person who is subservient to another; a subordinate. James Harrison, the tenant, was one of his subservients, chosen by him in consequence of his austere piety, and great influence with his sect […]
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adj useful in an inferior capacity
| Español | subordinado |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 次要的 cìyàode, 次要 cìyào |
adj obsequiously submissive
| Español | servil |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 恭顺 gōngshùn |
| हिन्दी | पराधीन parādhīn |
| Português | subserviente |
| Français | servile |
| Deutsch | lakaienhaft, servil, untertänig |
| Русский | раболепный rabolepnyj |
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