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Synonyms & Antonyms of subservient
1
very willing to obey someone else
- She was an equal partner in the marriage and not a subservient wife.
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Antonyms & Near Antonyms for subservient
- balky,
- contrary,
- contumacious,
- defiant,
- disobedient,
- froward,
- incompliant,
- insubordinate,
- intractable,
- noncompliant,
- obstreperous,
- rebel,
- rebellious,
- recalcitrant,
- refractory,
- restive,
- unamenable,
- ungovernable,
- unruly,
- untoward,
- wayward,
- willful
- (or wilful)
2
having a less important role, job, or place as something else
- The employees used to build things by hand but now were subservient to automated equipment that handled much of production.
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The first known use of subservient was circa 1626
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