| Main Entry: | slavish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having the qualities of a slave |
Synonyms: |
cringing, docile, fawning, obsequious, servile, submissive |
| Main Entry: | slavish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lacking originality |
Synonyms: |
boring, dull, faithful, imitative, uninspired |
| Main Entry: | slavish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | servile |
Synonyms: |
abject, bond, dependent, groveling, hard, imitative, menial, obsequious, oppressive, submissive, subservient, uninspired, unoriginal |
Antonyms: |
assertive, independent |
| Main Entry: | fawning |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deferential, groveling |
Synonyms: |
abject, adulatory, bootlicking, bowing, brownnosing, compliant, cowering, crawling, cringing, flattering, humble, ingratiating, kowtowing, mealy-mouthed, obsequious, parasitic, prostrate, scraping, servile, slavish, sniveling, spineless, submissive, subservient, sycophant, sycophantic |
Antonyms: |
aloof, cool, disinterested, proud, unfriendly |
| Main Entry: | hard |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult, exhausting |
Synonyms: |
Herculean, arduous, backbreaking, bothersome, burdensome, complicated, demanding, difficile, distressing, effortful, exacting, fatiguing, formidable, grinding, hairy*, heavy*, intricate, involved, irksome, knotty, labored, laborious, mean, merciless, murder, onerous, operose, rigorous, rough, rugged, scabrous, serious, severe, slavish, sticky, strenuous, terrible, tiring, toilful, toilsome, tough, troublesome, unsparing, uphill battle, uphill, wearing, wearisome, wearying |
Antonyms: |
easy, facile, mild, simple |
| Main Entry: | menial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lowly, low-status |
Synonyms: |
abject, base, baseborn, boring, common, degrading, demeaning, dull, fawning, grovelling, humble, humdrum, ignoble, ignominious, low, mean, obeisant, obsequious, routine, servile, slavish, sorry, subservient, sycophantic, unskilled, vile |
Antonyms: |
elevated, skilled, superior, talented |
| Main Entry: | obsequious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | groveling, submissive |
Synonyms: |
abject, beggarly, brownnosing, complacent, compliable, compliant, cringing, crouching, deferential, enslaved, fawning, flattering, ingratiating, kowtowing, menial, obeisant, oily, parasitic, parasitical, prostrate, respectful, servile, slavish, sneaking, sniveling, spineless, stipendiary, subject, submissive, subordinate, subservient, sycophantic, toadying, unctuous |
Antonyms: |
arrogant, assertive, brazen, confident, presumptuous |
| Main Entry: | servile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | grovelling, subservient |
Synonyms: |
abject, base, beggarly, bootlicking, craven, cringing, despicable, eating crow, eating humble pie, fawning, humble, ignoble, low, mean, obedient, obeisant, obsequious, passive, slavish, submissive, sycophantic, toadying, unctuous, unresisting |
Antonyms: |
aggressive, dominant |
| Main Entry: | subject |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | at the mercy of; answerable |
Synonyms: |
accountable, apt, at one's feet, bound by, captive, collateral, conditional, contingent, controlled, dependent, directed, disposed, enslaved, exposed, governed, in danger of, inferior, liable, likely, obedient, open, prone, provisional, ruled, satellite, secondary, sensitive, servile, slavish, sub, subaltern, subjugated, submissive, subordinate, subservient, substract, susceptible, tentative, tributary, under, vulnerable |
Antonyms: |
master |
| Main Entry: | submissive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | compliant |
Synonyms: |
abject, accommodating, acquiescent, amenable, bowing down, comformable, complying, deferential, docile, domesticated, dutiful, giving-in, humble, ingratiating, lowly, malleable, meek, menial, nonresistant, nonresisting, obedient, obeisant, obeying, obsequious, passive, patient, pliable, pliant, resigned, servile, slavish, subdued, tame, tractable, uncomplaining, unresisting, yes*, yielding |
Antonyms: |
disobedient, fighting, intractable, resistant, unyielding |