servility
/sur-vil, -vahyl/US // ˈsɜr vɪl, -vaɪl //UK // (ˈsɜːvaɪl) //
奴性,仆人精神,公务员,勤劳
Related Words
abject卑微的,卑微的人,卑微,卑怯base基础,基地,基层,底层beggarly卑鄙的,乞丐式的,乞丐式,乞丐craven螃蟹,蹩脚,蹩脚的,渴望cringing畏缩不前,畏畏缩缩,畏缩,趑趄不前despicable卑鄙,卑鄙的,卑鄙无耻,可鄙fawning献媚,媚态,谄媚,媚俗humble卑微的,谦逊的,谦虚,谦卑的ignoble卑鄙无耻,卑鄙,卑鄙的,卑微的low低,低的,低位,低级mean意味着,是指,意思是说,意思是obedient顺从的,顺从,服从的,听话的obeisant尊敬的先生,卑躬屈膝,尊敬的,崇拜者obsequious谄媚的,谄媚,卑躬屈膝,谄媚的人passive被动的,被动,被动式,被动型slavish奴性的,奴隶式的,奴性,奴隶制submissive顺从的人,顺民,顺从者,顺从unctuous油腻,假惺惺的,假惺惺,腻味bootlicking马屁精,溜须拍马,拍马屁,擦鞋sycophantic佞人,奉承,奉承主义,附庸风雅
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : slavishly submissive or obsequious; fawning: servile flatterers.
- : characteristic of, proper to, or customary for slaves; abject: servile obedience.
- : yielding slavishly; truckling.
- : extremely imitative, especially in the arts; lacking in originality.
- : being in slavery; oppressed.
- : of, relating to, or involving slaves or servants.
- : of or relating to a condition of servitude or property ownership in which a person is held in slavery or partially enslaved: medieval rebellions against servile laws.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Why should we acquiesce in the preparation of our spirits for the worst kind of servility—slavery to fate?
There is, at least, no country in Europe in which servility has not invented and vanity received genealogies yet more chimerical.
There is little difficulty in summing up their tenets: it is "Reverence, without servility."
Parliament tried respectful remonstrances in vain; the cardinal thought himself safe in the servility of the nation.
Resistance to power has shut the door of the House of Commons to one man; obsequiousness and servility, to none.
A constitutional habit of servility to his creditor when present before him signalized Algernon.
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