Definition of servile

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Servile (a.) 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..

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Adulatory :: Adulatory (a.) Containing excessive praise or compliment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address..
Slavish :: Slavish (a.) Of or pertaining to slaves; such as becomes or befits a slave; servile; excessively laborious; as, a slavish life; a slavish dependance on the great..
Observance :: Observance (n.) Servile attention; sycophancy.
Labor :: Labor (n.) Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort directed to some useful end, as agriculture, manufactures, and like; servile toil; exertion; work..
Lackey :: Lackey (v.) An attending male servant; a footman; a servile follower.
Servile :: Servile (n.) An element which forms no part of the original root; -- opposed to radical.
Servile :: Servile (a.) Not itself sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceeding vowel, as e in tune..
Ape :: Ape (n.) One who imitates servilely (in allusion to the manners of the ape); a mimic.
Menial :: Menial (n.) Belonging to a retinue or train of servants; performing servile office; serving.
Servilely :: Servilely (adv.) In a servile manner; slavishly.
Ducker :: Ducker (n.) A cringing, servile person; a fawner..
Subserviently :: Subservient (a.) Fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior capacity; serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence, servile, truckling..
Supparasite :: Supparasitation (n.) The act of flattering to gain favor; servile approbation.
Truckler :: Truckler (n.) One who truckles, or yields servilely to the will of another..
Bordage :: Bordage (n.) The base or servile tenure by which a bordar held his cottage.
Obsequious :: Obsequious (a.) Servilely or meanly attentive; compliant to excess; cringing; fawning; as, obsequious flatterer, parasite..
Servile :: Servile (a.) Held in subjection; dependent; enslaved.
Poking :: Poking (a.) Drudging; servile.
Abjectly :: Abjectly (adv.) Meanly; servilely.
Creature :: Creature (n.) A person who owes his rise and fortune to another; a servile dependent; an instrument; a tool.
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