Vocabulary
Subservient
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
prepared to obey others unquestioningly.
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Meanwhile, donors and UN agencies, in the name of `partnership`, have made NGOs effectively subservient to state authorities.
- The judiciary is now completely subservient to the executive after the passage of the 26th Amendment.
- Earlier, Irsa had dangled the peculiar proposal of amending the law to make itself subservient to the centre.
- Critics, however, question the establishment`s definition of a `friendly nation`, arguing that it often implies a desire to dominate or make others subservient.
- As one of the respondents on X put it, the image of crying women is etched in our minds because women, by and large, still live a subservient and miserable existence pressed into the service of others.
Synonyms
submissive, deferential, acquiescent, compliant, accommodating, obedient, dutiful, duteous
Antonyms
domineering, independent
Curator example
“she was subservient to her parents”
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