[responsivevoice] subservient [/responsivevoice] [ suh b-sur-vee-uh nt ]
The word of the day is ‘subservient’
The word is an adjective, i.e., it adds more information about the noun or sentence.
No, the word is an adjective. Therefore, it does not have a past form.
It means:
1. Extremely compliant
2. Secondary
3. Useful
4. Less important
1. Hindi – Adheen
2. Spanish – Subordinado
3. French – Servile
4. Mandarin – Fúcóng de
1. Surely the stomach should be subservient to the mind, but it isn’t.
2. Politics are no métier for a woman, or they should be subservient to something else.
3. We must separate the fanciful from the real, or at least make the one subservient to the other.
4. I will be subservient to thy greatness, I will exalt thy divinity.
5. It will be subservient to the law of literature, which formerly received the law from it.
deferential, inferior, submissive, abject, acquiescent, bootlicking, cowering, cringing, dancing, docile, fawning, ignoble,menial, obeisant, obsequious, resigned, servile, slavish, subject, sycophantic, accessory, adjuvant, ancillary, appurtenant, auxiliary, collateral, conducive, contributory, flunky, helpful, instrumental, minor, serviceable, subordinate, subsidiary, supplemental, compliant, accommodating, obedient, dutiful, duteous, biddable, yielding, meek, ductile, pliant, passive, unassertive, spiritless, subdued, humble, timid, mild, lamblike, grovelling, truckling, downtrodden, snivelling, resistless, longanimous etc
Some antonyms of the word are:
controlling, domineering, unhelpful, unnecessary, useless, independent, superior
Quotation:
The police force has repeatedly demonstrated an inability and unwillingness to carry out its fundamental mandate: to serve and protect the people of Hong Kong. It has been reduced to a mere instrument of repression subservient to the political agenda of Beijing’s regime in Hong Kong.
Joshua Wong
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