Synonyms for servile
ˈsɜr vɪl, -vaɪlservile

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1. servilenoun

   Antonyms:
   radical

2. servilenoun

   of or pertaining to a slave

   Antonyms:
   radical

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1. servile

   Synonyms:
   beggarly, contemptible, mean, poor, slavish, vile

   Antonyms:
   august, kinglike, kingly, magnificent, majestic, munificent, princely, regal, royal

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1. servile

   Synonyms:
   obsequious, cringing, sequacious, menial, sneaking, low, abject

   Antonyms:
   independent, fractions, refractory, recalcitrant, dogged, stubborn, defiant, rebellious

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1. servileadjective

   submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior

   "spoke in a servile tone"; "the incurably servile housekeeper"; "servile tasks such as floor scrubbing and barn work"

   Synonyms:
   servile(a)

   Antonyms:
   free, unsubmissive, unservile

2. servile(a)adjective

   relating to or involving slaves or appropriate for slaves or servants

   "Brown's attempt at servile insurrection"; "the servile wars of Sicily"; "servile work"

   Antonyms:
   unservile, unsubmissive, free

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1. fawning

   Submitted by anonymous on November 17, 2019  

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1. servileadjective

   Synonyms:
   dependent, menial, held in bondage, held in slavery, held in subjection

2. servileadjective

   Synonyms:
   slavish, mean, base, cringing, obsequious, fawning, supple, grovelling, sycophantic, abject, low, beggarly, sneaking, base-minded, low-minded, meanly submissive

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1. servileadjective

   Synonyms:
   slavish, abject, cringing, groveling, obsequious, dependent, enslaved

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1. List of paraphrases for "servile":

   bonded, subservient, easement, servitude, enslavement

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How to use servile in a sentence?

1. Thomas Jefferson:

   Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

2. Rafael Cruz:

   [I’m not going to] come like a servile puppy dog and say, ‘thank you very much for maligning my wife and maligning my father,’.

3. Cyril Connolly:

   The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The tragedy is that they are too many of them, and that they are aimless, having outgrown the servile functions for which they were encouraged to multiply. One day these huge crowds will have to seize power because there will be nothing else for them to do, and yet they neither demand power nor are ready to make use of it; they will learn only to be bored in a new way.

4. William Hazlitt:

   Fashon is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath -- tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.

5. Greville:

   I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others.