subservient (Meaning)
subservient (s)
compliant and obedient to authority
serving or acting as a means or aid
abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant
Synonyms & Antonyms of subservient
Synonyms:
Antonyms:
- disobedient
- ungovernable
- willful
- intractable
- restive
- recalcitrant
- balky
- peevish
- hardheaded
- rebellious
- wayward
- stubborn
- resistant
- peevish
- resistant
- rebel
- defiant
- wilful
- willful
- uncontrollable
- refractory
- insurgent
- stubborn
- obdurate
- hardheaded
- insurgent
- contrary
- refractory
- unruly
- restive
- disobedient
- unyielding
- obstreperous
- noncompliant
- obstinate
- mutinous
- mutinous
- contumacious
- contumacious
- obstinate
- untoward
- ungovernable
- noncompliant
- rebel
- obdurate
- contrary
- wayward
- insubordinate
- defiant
- headstrong
- recalcitrant
- wilful
- unyielding
- obstreperous
- headstrong
- rebellious
- unruly
- insubordinate
- intractable
- balky
- uncontrollable
- untoward
Synonyms:
- compliant
- dutiful
- tractable
- acquiescent
- amenable
- controllable
- slavish
- obliging
- submissive
- docile
- fawning
- amiable
- servile
- governable
- conformable
- meek
- biddable
- obeisant
- obsequious
Antonyms:
- bad
- froward
- naughty
- undisciplined
- froward
- wild
- insolent
- bad
- mulish
- mischievous
- incompliant
- pigheaded
- unmanageable
- errant
- unmanageable
- perverse
- undisciplined
- insolent
- mischievous
- dogged
- disorderly
- errant
- pigheaded
- unamenable
- self-willed
- disorderly
- unamenable
- incompliant
- wild
- self-willed
- dogged
- perverse
- naughty
- mulish
subservient Sentence Examples
- The employee exhibited an overly subservient attitude towards his superior.
- The pet dog was subservient to its owner's every command.
- The colony was subservient to the rule of the tyrannical emperor.
- The scientist's subservient assistant diligently carried out all his experiments.
- The subordinate was expected to be subservient to the higher-ranking officer.
- The weak nation was subservient to the demands of its powerful neighbor.
- The submissive child was subservient to the authority of his parents.
- The oppressed people lived in a state of subservient poverty.
- The politician's subservient behavior towards the lobbyists raised concerns about corruption.
- The enslaved workers were forced to live a subservient existence.
FAQs About the word subservient
compliant and obedient to authority, serving or acting as a means or aid, abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant
obedient, passive,subordinate, compliant, dutiful, tractable, acquiescent, amenable, controllable, slavish
disobedient, ungovernable, willful, intractable, restive, recalcitrant, balky, peevish, hardheaded, rebellious
The employee exhibited an overly subservient attitude towards his superior.
The pet dog was subservient to its owner's every command.
The colony was subservient to the rule of the tyrannical emperor.
The scientist's subservient assistant diligently carried out all his experiments.
