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

  1. Useful in an inferior capacity.
  2. 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

  1. 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

Españolsubordinado
中文次要的 cìyàode, 次要 cìyào

adj obsequiously submissive

Españolservil
中文恭顺 gōngshùn
हिन्दीपराधीन parādhīn
Portuguêssubserviente
Françaisservile
Deutschlakaienhaft, servil, untertänig
Русскийраболепный rabolepnyj

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@misc{subservient_2026,
  title = {subservient},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/subservient},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}