mindmap root((顺从)) subservient implies the compliant or cringing manner of one conscious of a subordinate position: domestic help was expected to be properly ~. servile suggests lowly status and mean or fawning submissiveness: a political boss and his entourage of ~ hangers-on. slavish suggests abject or debased servility: the ~ condition of migrant farmer workers. menial stresses humbleness and degradation associated with one who works at an economically or socially inferior occupation: wanted to escape from a life of ~ jobs. obsequious implies fawning or sycophantic compliance and exaggerated deference of manner: waiters who are ~ in the presence of celebrities.