Word Meaning

Meaning of "servile" and the crossword clue

- Cringing
- Meanly submissive
- Obsequious
- Overly submissive
- Reviles characters for being obsequious
- Submissive
- Of or pertaining to a servant or slave; befitting a servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence, meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning; as, servile flattery; servile fear; servile obedience.
- Held in subjection; dependent; enslaved.
- Not belonging to the original root; as, a servile letter.
- Not itself sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceeding vowel, as e in tune.
- An element which forms no part of the original root; -- opposed to radical.