servile
Adjective
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Submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior (synset 300793641)
"spoke in a servile tone"; "the incurably servile housekeeper"; "servile tasks such as floor scrubbing and barn work"similar to:
- bootlicking, fawning, sycophantic, toadyish - attempting to win favor by flattery
- obsequious - attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner
- slavish, submissive, subservient - abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant
- slavelike - suitable for a slave or servant
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Relating to or involving slaves or appropriate for slaves or servants (synset 301069915)
"Brown's attempt at servile insurrection"; "the servile wars of Sicily"; "servile work"similar to: unfree - held in servitude
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