Definition of SERVILE

servile

Plural: serviles

Adjective

  • Having an excessive willingness to serve or please others; slavishly submissive.
  • submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior
    • "spoke in a servile tone"
    • "the incurably servile housekeeper"
    • "servile tasks such as floor scrubbing and barn work"

Adjective Satellite

  • relating to or involving slaves or appropriate for slaves or servants
    • "Brown's attempt at servile insurrection"
    • "the servile wars of Sicily"
    • "servile work"

Adj

  • Excessively eager to please; obsequious.
  • Slavish or submissive.
  • Slavish or submissive.
  • Of or pertaining to a slave.
  • Not belonging to the original root.
  • Not sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceding vowel, like the e in tune.

Noun

  • An element which forms no part of the original root.
  • A slave; a menial.

Examples

  • a servile letter
  • His servile attitude towards his opponent’s high-scoring plays was disheartening.
  • servile flattery    servile obedience

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English servyle, from Old French servil, servile, from Latin servīlis, from servus (“slave”).

Scrabble Score: 10

servile: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
servile: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
servile: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 12

servile: valid Words With Friends Word