servile

About 0.95 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Excessively eager to please; obsequious.
2. adjective Slavish or submissive.

   servile flattery servile obedience

3. adjective Of or pertaining to slaves or slavery.
4. adjective Not belonging to the original root.

   a servile letter

5. adjective Not sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceding vowel, like the e in tune.
6. noun An element which forms no part of the original root.
7. noun A slave; a menial.

Similar words

slavish slavelike slave subservient submissive obsequious enslavement menial servitude bonded

Often followed by

and imitation condition state war to insurrection class status

Word family

servilely servileness servilenesses servilities servility