| Main Entry: | dependent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | weak, helpless |
Synonyms: |
abased, clinging, counting on, debased, defenseless, humbled, immature, indigent, inferior, lesser, minor, poor, reliant, relying on, secondary, subordinate, tied to apron strings, under, under thumb, unsustaining, vulnerable |
Antonyms: |
independent, mature, strong, unreliant |
| Main Entry: | downtrodden |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | afflicted, abused |
Synonyms: |
a slave to, abject, at one's beck and call, at one's feet, at one's mercy, destitute, distressed, exploited, have-not, helpless, in one's clutches, in one's pocket, in one's power, led by the nose, maltreated, mistreated, needy, oppressed, overcome, persecuted, subjugated, subservient, suppressed, tyrannized, under one's thumb, underdog*, underfoot |
Antonyms: |
happy, respected, satisfied |
| Main Entry: | oppressed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | downtrodden |
Synonyms: |
a slave to, abject, abused, at one's feet, at one's mercy, burdened, destitute, distressed, enslaved, exploited, have-not, helpless, maltreated, mistreated, persecuted, subservient, suppressed, tormented, tyrannized, under one's thumb, underfoot |
| Main Entry: | subservient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extremely compliant |
Synonyms: |
a slave to, abject, acquiescent, at one's beck and call, at one's mercy, bootlicking, cowering, cringing, dancing, deferential, docile, fawning, ignoble, in one's clutches, in one's pocket, in one's power, inferior, mean, menial, obeisant, obsequious, resigned, servile, slavish, subject, submissive, sycophantic, under one's thumb |
Antonyms: |
controlling, domineering |
| Main Entry: | henpecked |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dominated by one's wife |
Synonyms: |
acquiescent, browbeaten, compliant, constrained, docile, dominated, in fear of one's wife, intimidated, led by the nose, meek, nagged, obedient, passive, resigned, subjected to nagging, submissive, timid, unassertive, under one's thumb, unresisting, wife-ridden, yielding |