subservient
English
Etymology
From Latin subserviens, present active of subservio (“I serve under”).
Pronunciation
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Adjective
subservient (comparative more subservient, superlative most subservient)
- Useful in an inferior capacity.
- Obsequiously submissive.
- 2019 May 19, Alex McLevy, “The final Game Of Thrones brings a pensive but simple meditation about stories (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club:
- Sansa takes her place as ruler of the North, a free and independent land no longer subservient to anywhere else. And Arya does what she’s always done best: Make her own way, literally leaving everything she knows behind to see what’s over the next horizon.
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Translations
useful in an inferior capacity
Latin
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