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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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	Servile \Serv"ile\, a. [L. servile, fr. servus a servant or
   slave: cf. F. servile. See Serve.]
   1. Of or pertaining to a servant or slave; befitting a
      servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence,
      meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning; as,
      servile flattery; servile fear; servile obedience.
      [1913 Webster]

            She must bend the servile knee.       --Thomson.
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            Fearing dying pays death servile breath. --Shak.
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   2. Held in subjection; dependent; enslaved.
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            Even fortune rules no more, O servile land! --Pope.
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   3. (Gram.)
      (a) Not belonging to the original root; as, a servile
          letter.
      (b) Not itself sounded, but serving to lengthen the
          preceeding vowel, as e in tune.
          [1913 Webster]

	


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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
servile
	Servile \Serv"ile\, n. (Gram.)
   An element which forms no part of the original root; --
   opposed to radical.
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Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
servile
	servile
     adj 1: pertaining to or involving slaves; "the servile wars of
            Sicily"
     2: 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"
        [ant: unservile]
     3: involving slaves; "Brown's attempt at servile insurrection"
        [syn: servile(a)]

	


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Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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	118 Moby Thesaurus words for "servile":
   abject, abused, accepting, acquiescent, agreeable, apple-polishing,
   ass-kissing, assenting, attendant, attending, base, bootlicking,
   browbeaten, brown-nosing, client, common, complaisant, compliable,
   compliant, complying, consenting, craven, cringing, crouching,
   deferential, demeaning, dependent, despicable, disadvantaged,
   downtrod, downtrodden, fawning, feudal, feudatory, flattering,
   ground down, groveling, helping, henpecked, humble, ignoble,
   in leading strings, in the shade, inferior, infra dig,
   ingratiating, junior, less, lesser, liege, low, lower, lowly, mean,
   mean-spirited, menial, ministering, minor, misused, modest,
   nondissenting, nonresistant, nonresisting, nonresistive, obedient,
   obeisant, obsequious, on bended knee, oppressed, ordered around,
   ordinary, overborne, passive, prone, prostrate, regimented,
   resigned, scurvy, second rank, second string, secondary, serving,
   servitorial, slavish, slimy, smarmy, sordid, sub, subaltern,
   subject, submissive, subordinate, subservient, supine, sycophantic,
   sycophantish, third rank, third string, toadish, toadying,
   toadyish, trampled, tributary, truckling, tyrannized, ugly,
   unassertive, uncomplaining, unctuous, underprivileged, unmanned,
   unresistant, unresisting, vassal, vile, vulgar, waiting,
   wheedling

	

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