subservient | more subservient | most subservient[Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Subservient \Sub*serv"i*ent\, a. [L. subserviens, -entis, p. pr.
See {Subserve}.]
Fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior
capacity; serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence,
servile, truckling.
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Scarce ever reading anything which he did not make
subservient in one kind or other. --Bp. Fell.
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These ranks of creatures are subservient one to
another. --Ray.
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Their temporal ambition was wholly subservient to their
proselytizing spirit. --Burke.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
subservient
adj 1: compliant and obedient to authority; "editors and
journalists who express opinions in print that are
opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and
replaced by subservient ones"-G. B. Shaw
2: serving or acting as a means or aid; "instrumental in solving
the crime" [syn: {implemental}, {instrumental},
{subservient}]
3: abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant;
"slavish devotion to her job ruled her life"; "a slavish yes-
man to the party bosses"- S.H.Adams; "she has become
submissive and subservient" [syn: {slavish}, {subservient},
{submissive}]
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เช่น Secretary of State=รัฐมนตรีต่างประเทศของสหรัฐฯ (ในภาพตัวอย่าง),
High school=โรงเรียนมัธยมปลาย
