Definitions for servile

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servile ser·vile

Spelling: [sur-vil, -vahyl]

IPA: /ˈsɜr vɪl, -vaɪl/

Servile is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 184 anagrams from letters in servile (eeilrsv).

Definitions for servile

adjective

1. slavishly submissive or obsequious; fawning:
2. characteristic of, proper to, or customary for slaves; abject:
3. yielding slavishly; truckling (usually followed by to).
4. extremely imitative, especially in the arts; lacking in originality.
5. being in slavery; oppressed.
6. of, relating to, or involving slaves or servants.
7. of or relating to a condition of servitude or property ownership in which a person is held as a slave or as partially enslaved:

Origin of servile

1350-1400; Middle English Latin servīlis, equivalent to serv- (stem of servīre to be a slave) + -īlis -ile

Examples for servile

They are not permitted to speak of that period of colonial history when they were ruled as a servile caste by a Tutsi elite.

The servile spouters in the land are as plenty as summer flies.

Art so followed is the most servile indolence in which life can be wasted.

In memory, he was reviled as a servile race traitor, a cringing sycophant to white wealth and power.

Base hearts it only hardens, making those who were mean and servile, mean and proud.

My brother was servile; he has attached himself to the retinue of a wealthy Baroness.

Yet though he sat at their feet, it was as no servile disciple.

Where Don is confident and arrogant, Bob is servile and accommodating.

Now both these are branches of the servile or ministerial art.

I found that I reverted to a housewife stereotype as servile as my grandma.