servile

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Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
12
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈsɜː(ɹ)ˌvaɪl/(UK)
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/ˈsɜː(ɹ)ˌvaɪl/(UK) · /ˈsəɹ.vəl/(US) · /ˈsəɹˌvaɪl/(US)

Definition of servile

7 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Excessively eager to please; obsequious.
    “British “subjects” (not citizens, note) are just that: gleefully servile to the monarchy’s institutionalised inequality...”
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adj

  1. Excessively eager to please; obsequious.
    “British “subjects” (not citizens, note) are just that: gleefully servile to the monarchy’s institutionalised inequality...”
  2. Slavish or submissive.
    “servile flattery    servile obedience”
    “Even fortune rules no more, O servile land!”
  3. Slavish or submissive.
  4. Not belonging to the original root.
    “a servile letter”
  5. Not sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceding vowel, like the e in tune.

noun

  1. An element which forms no part of the original root.
  2. A slave; a menial.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English servyle, from Old French servil, servile, from Latin servīlis, from servus (“slave”). By surface analysis, serve + -ile.

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