| subservient | | |
| adj. | 1. subservient | 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" |
| ~ subordinate | subject or submissive to authority or the control of another.; "a subordinate kingdom" |
| adj. | 2. implemental, instrumental, subservient | serving or acting as a means or aid.; "instrumental in solving the crime" |
| ~ helpful | providing assistance or serving a useful function. |
| adj. | 3. slavish, 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" |
| ~ servile | submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior.; "spoke in a servile tone"; "the incurably servile housekeeper"; "servile tasks such as floor scrubbing and barn work" |
| yielding | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. giving up, surrender, yielding | a verbal act of admitting defeat. |
| ~ relinquishing, relinquishment | a verbal act of renouncing a claim or right or position etc.. |
| n. (communication) | 2. conceding, concession, yielding | the act of conceding or yielding. |
| ~ assent, acquiescence | agreement with a statement or proposal to do something.; "he gave his assent eagerly"; "a murmur of acquiescence from the assembly" |
| ~ bye, pass | you advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent.; "he had a bye in the first round" |
| adj. | 3. yielding | inclined to yield to argument or influence or control.; "a timid yielding person" |
| ~ docile | willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed.; "the docile masses of an enslaved nation" |
| adj. | 4. yielding | lacking stiffness and giving way to pressure.; "a deep yielding layer of foam rubber" |
| ~ soft | yielding readily to pressure or weight. |
| adj. | 5. yielding | tending to give in or surrender or agree.; "too yielding to make a stand against any encroachments" |
| ~ compromising, conciliatory, flexible | making or willing to make concessions.; "loneliness tore through him...whenever he thought of...even the compromising Louis du Tillet" |
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