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[ sley-vish ] / ˈsleɪ vɪʃ / SEE SYNONYMS FOR slavish ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectiveof or befitting a slave: slavish subjection. being or resembling a slave; abjectly submissive: He was slavish in his obedience. base; mean; ignoble: slavish fears. deliberately imitative; lacking originality: a slavish reproduction. Origin of slavishFirst recorded in 1555–65; slave + -ish1 SYNONYMS FOR slavish2 groveling, sycophantic, fawning, cringing. SEE SYNONYMS FOR slavish ON THESAURUS.COM ANTONYMS FOR slavish2 independent. 3 exalted. SEE ANTONYMS FOR slavish ON THESAURUS.COM synonym study for slavish2. See servile. OTHER WORDS FROM slavishslav·ish·ly, adverbslav·ish·ness, nouno·ver·slav·ish, adjectiveo·ver·slav·ish·ly, adverb o·ver·slav·ish·ness, noun Words nearby slavishslave trade, slavey, Slavic, Slavicism, Slavicist, slavish, Slavism, Slavkov, Slavo-, slavocracy, Slavonia Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for slavishDC Comics uses a slavish adherence to the status quo to prevent anything socially progressive from taking place on its pages. DC Comics’ Diversity Crisis: Why the Status Quo Rules|Liz Watson|July 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST She must whitewash these brown men and women, rid them of their savage, slavish ways, and repaint them in her own image. The Abused Wives of Westeros: A Song of Feminism in ‘Game of Thrones’|Amy Zimmerman|April 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST Zaks had to find the delicate poise between vivid restating and slavish reenactment. New York’s Greatest Show Or How They Did Not Screw Up ‘Guys and Dolls’|Ross Wetzsteon|April 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST This is a lie, and only the most slavish of Russian propagandists are claiming otherwise. Ron Paul Is Supporting Russia’s Illegal Occupation of Crimea|James Kirchick|March 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
His recent opus, “Distorting Russia,” will go down in history as one of the most slavish defenses of Putinism. How the ‘Realists’ Misjudged Ukraine|James Kirchick|March 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST Yet not such a slavish one neither, as should rather seem the effect of her insensibility, than judgment or affection. Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded|Samuel Richardson Yet evil to them seems less a terrible than a slavish thing. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death|Frederick W. H. Myers Faith is not a matter of blind belief, of slavish assent and acceptance, as many no-faith people seem to regard it. Introduction to Robert Browning|Hiram Corson Tertullian's works prove that they were, on the other hand, almost too slavish in their adherence to ancient customs. The Expositor's Bible: The Acts of the Apostles, Vol. 1|G. T. Stokes Football is driving, slavish work; there isn't one man in twenty who gets any real pleasure out of it. Stover at Yale|Owen Johnson
British Dictionary definitions for slavish
adjectiveof or befitting a slave being or resembling a slave; servile unoriginal; imitative archaic ignoble Derived forms of slavishslavishly, adverbslavishness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to slavishcringing, docile, fawning, obsequious, servile, submissive, boring, dull, faithful, imitative, uninspired, abject, bond, dependent, groveling, hard, menial, oppressive, subservient, unoriginal |