Adjective: subservient sub'sur-vee-unt or ,súb'sur-vee-unt
- Compliant and obedient to authority
"editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones"
- Abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant
"she has become submissive and subservient";
- slavish, submissive
- Serving or acting as a means or aid
"subservient in solving the crime";
- implemental, instrumental
See also: helpful, servile, subordinate