Synonym: implemental, instrumental, slavish, submissive. Similar words: overview, interview, serving, service, observe, observer, observed, observation. Meaning: [səb'sɜrvɪənt /-'sɜːv-] 
adj. 1. compliant and obedient to authority 2. serving or acting as a means or aid 3. abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant.
adj. 1. compliant and obedient to authority 2. serving or acting as a means or aid 3. abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant. 
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1 Don remained entirely subservient to his father.
2 She is expected to be subservient to her uncle.
3 Are priests too subservient to their bishops?
4 The press was accused of being subservient to the government.
5 The minister arrived,[www.Sentencedict.com] surrounded by the usual subservient flunkeys.
6 He was subservient and servile.
7 His wife refused to accept a traditional subservient role.
8 The woman's needs are seen as subservient to the group interest.
9 The needs of individuals were subservient to those of the group as a whole.
10 The government was accused of being subservient to the interests of the pro-Europe campaigners.
11 Every consideration was subservient to the overriding need to cut costs.
12 People should not be regarded as subservient to the economic system.
13 That is not to say that Parliament was subservient.
14 All other studies he made subservient to that end.
15 The regime was subservient to the Soviet Union.
16 This makes them subservient to a moral objective which may be unattainable.
17 Although the legislative branch was clearly subservient to the executive,(sentencedict.com) the Supreme Court exercised power independently.
18 Another is of women always taking the more subservient roles in home and work situations.
19 This is a subservient way of talking in which everything is hedged about and nothing asserted outright.
20 She did not wish to leave him, but she could not accept her subservient role.
21 What she hated about being a nurse was having to be so subservient to doctors.
22 But as I have shown, the function of grammar depends upon its being subservient to lexis.
23 In the Chopin and Corelli Variations virtuosity is in general subservient to long-term musical goals.
24 That support should not maintain institutions in a client or subservient role.
25 What remained of its ethnic population had to be subservient to the whims of its overlords in the Kremlin.
26 As for government parties, they are seldom if ever single-minded in their support of the political executive and altogether subservient to it.
27 Very few people l have known would acquiesce, if they had any choice, in a subservient position.
28 Indeed she is such a kind and caring person that colleagues have questioned whether she is sometimes too subservient to her officials.
29 Both exhibitions are primarily to do with art, with scholarship playing a subservient role.
30 I have yet to hear of any document that says that people are subservient to the government.
More similar words: overview, interview, serving, service, observe, observer, observed, observation, subsequent, social services, subsequently, purview, supervisor, serve, reserve, serve as, reserved, preserve, reservation, conservative, conservation, absent, be absent from, client, orient, lenient, ambient, salient, ancient, patient.