slavish, subservient, submissive
(adjective) 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”
implemental, instrumental, subservient
(adjective) serving or acting as a means or aid; “instrumental in solving the crime”
subservient
(adjective) 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
Source: WordNet® 3.1
subservient (comparative more subservient, superlative most subservient)
Useful in an inferior capacity.
Obsequiously submissive.
Source: Wiktionary
Sub*serv"i*ent, a. Etym: [L. subserviens, -entis, p.pr. See Subserve.]
Definition: Fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior capacity; serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence, servile, truckling. Scarce ever reading anything which he did not make subservient in one kind or other. Bp. Fell. These ranks of creatures are subservient one to another. Ray. Their temporal ambition was wholly subservient to their proselytizing spirit. Burke.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
16 May 2025
(adjective) marked by columniation having free columns in porticoes either at both ends or at both sides of a structure
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
