| Meaning | submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior. |
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| Examples | - "spoke in a servile tone"
- "the incurably servile housekeeper"
- "servile tasks such as floor scrubbing and barn work"
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| Narrower | bootlicking, fawning, sycophantic, toadyish | Attempting to win favor by flattery |
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| obsequious | attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner |
| slavelike | Suitable for a slave or servant |
| slavish, subservient, submissive | abjectly submissive |
| Opposite | unservile, unsubmissive | not servile or submissive |
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| Spanish | servil |
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| Nouns | servility | abject or cringing submissiveness |
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| Adverbs | servilely | in an obsequious manner |
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