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slavey |
slavic |
slavic language |
slavic people |
slavic race |
slavish
| slavishly
| slavism
| slavocracy
| slavonian
| slavonic
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slavish
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective slavish has 2 senses
- slavish(s = adj.all) Array - blindly imitative; "a slavish copy of the original"
- slavish(s = adj.all) submissive, subservient - abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant; "slavish devotion to her job ruled her life"; "a slavish yes-man to the party bosses"; "she has become submissive and subservient"
CIDE DICTIONARY
slavish, a.
Of or pertaining to slaves; such as becomes or befits a slave; servile; excessively laborious; as, a slavish life; a slavish dependance on the great. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
slavish, adj.
1 of, like, or as of slaves.
2 showing no attempt at originality or development.
3 abject, servile, base.
1 of, like, or as of slaves.
2 showing no attempt at originality or development.
3 abject, servile, base.
Derivative
slavishly adv. slavishness n.
THESAURUS
slavish
abused, apish, base, browbeaten, difficult, downtrod, downtrodden, emulative, formidable, ground down, heavy, henpecked, imitative, in leading strings, knotty, laborious, mean, menial, miserable, misused, obeisant, obsequious, operose, oppressed, ordered around, overborne, regimented, rough, rugged, servile, spineless, strenuous, subdued, submissive, subservient, tame, trampled, tyrannized, uninspired, unmanned, unoriginal, wretchedROGET THESAURUS
slavish
Servility
N servility, slavery, obsequiousness, subserviency, abasement, prostration, prosternation, genuflection, fawning, tuft- hunting, timeserving, flunkeyism, sycophancy, humility, sycophant, parasite, toad, toady, toad-eater, tufthunter, snob, flunky, flunkey, yes-man, lapdog, spaniel, lickspittle, smell-feast, Graeculus esuriens, hanger on, cavaliere servente, led captain, carpet knight, timeserver, fortune hunter, Vicar of Bray, Sir- Pertinax, Max Sycophant, pickthank, flatterer, doer of dirty work, ame damnee, tool, reptile, slave, courtier, beat, dead beat, doughface, heeler, homme de cour, sponger, sucker, tagtail, truckler, servile, obsequious, supple, supple as a glove, soapy, oily, pliant, cringing, abased, dough-faced, fawning, slavish, groveling, sniveling, mealy-mouthed, beggarly, sycophantic, parasitical, abject, prostrate, down on ones marrowbones, base, mean, sneaking, crouching, hat in hand, cap in hand.
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