subservient

  • (s) compliant and obedient to authority
    • "editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones"-G. B. Shaw
  • (s) serving or acting as a means or aid
    • instrumental in solving the crime
    implemental, instrumental,
  • (s) abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant
    • slavish devotion to her job ruled her life
    • "a slavish yes-man to the party bosses"- S.H.Adams
    • she has become submissive and subservient
    slavish, submissive,

Synonyms

implemental instrumental slavish submissive

Words of close approximity

subserviently subservientness