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Antonyms for subservient


Grammar : Adj
Spell : suh b-sur-vee-uh nt
Phonetic Transcription : səbˈsɜr vi ənt



Definition of subservient

Origin :
  • 1630s, "useful, serviceable," from Latin subservientem (nominative subserviens), present participle of subservire "assist, lend support," from sub "under" (see sub-) + servire "serve" (see serve). The meaning "slavishly obedient" is first recorded 1794.
  • adj extremely compliant
  • adj secondary, useful
Example sentences :
  • We must separate the fanciful from the real, or at least make the one subservient to the other.
  • Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 8 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
  • I loved him so that I could crush every other feeling down, subservient to my passion.
  • Extract from : « The Golden Woman » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • Marta by the trembling, subservient Archbishop of his creation.
  • Extract from : « Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard » by Joseph Conrad
  • Surely the stomach should be subservient to the mind; but it isn't.
  • Extract from : « Molly Bawn » by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton
  • Politics are no métier for a woman, or they should be subservient to something else.
  • Extract from : « Mary Gray » by Katharine Tynan
  • He is supreme; there is none like him, and the spirits are subservient to his will.
  • Extract from : « The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria » by Morris Jastrow
  • I will be subservient to thy greatness, I will exalt thy divinity.
  • Extract from : « The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria » by Morris Jastrow
  • It will be subservient to the law of literature, which formerly received the law from it.
  • Extract from : « Notre-Dame de Paris » by Victor Hugo
  • The lawyers had been subservient beyond all other classes to the Crown.
  • Extract from : « History of the English People, Volume V (of 8) » by John Richard Green
  • The senate, in a word, though slavish and subservient, is not friendly.
  • Extract from : « Aurelian » by William Ware

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