subservientadjective
uk/səbˈsɜː.vi.ənt/us/səbˈsɝː.vi.ənt/disapprovingwilling to do what other people want, or considering your wishes as less important than those of other people:
Women were expected to adopt a subservient role/position.
His other interests were subservient to his compelling passion for art.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Obedient and compliant
- accordance
- acquiescent
- adherence
- answer to sb
- be (like) sheep idiom
- clean
- clean up your act idiom
- compliant
- creature
- dutiful
- easy
- follower
- I'm easy idiom
- obedience
- sheep
- slavish
- slavishly
- tie
- tied to your mother's/wife's apron strings idiom
- tractable
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subservience
noun [ U ] uk/səbˈsɜː.vi.əns/us/səbˈsɝː.vi.əns/
subserviently
adverb uk/səbˈsɜː.vi.ənt.li/us/səbˈsɝː.vi.ənt.li/