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Main Entry:
obeisant
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: showing respect
Synonyms: courtly, deferential, dutiful, regarding, respectful, respecting, reverent, reverential, servile, standing
Main Entry: menial
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: lowly, low-status
Synonyms: abject, base, baseborn, boring, common, degrading, demeaning, dull, fawning, grovelling, humble, humdrum, ignoble, ignominious, low, mean, obeisant, obsequious, routine, servile, slavish, sorry, subservient, sycophantic, unskilled, vile
Antonyms: elevated, skilled, superior, talented
Main Entry: mild
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: easygoing, pleasant in personality
Synonyms: amiable, balmy, bland, calm, clement, compassionate, complaisant, deferential, docile, dull, easy, equable, feeble, flat, forbearant, forbearing, forgiving, gentle, good-humored, good-natured, good-tempered, humane, indulgent, insipid, jejune, kind, lenient, meek, mellow, merciful, mild-mannered, moderate, obeisant, obliging, pacific, patient, peaceable, placid, serene, smooth, soft, spiritless, subdued, submissive, subservient, tame, temperate, tender, tranquil, unassuming, vapid, warm
Antonyms: agitated, flappable, nervous
Main Entry: obedient
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: well-behaved; submissive
Synonyms: acquiescent, amenable, at one's beck and call, attentive, biddable, complaisant, compliant, controllable, deferential, devoted, docile, docious, duteous, dutiful, faithful, governable, honoring, in one's clutches, in one's pocket, in one's power, law-abiding, loyal, obeisant, obliging, observant, on a string, pliant, regardful, resigned, respectful, reverential, sheeplike, subservient, tame, tractable, under control, venerating, well-trained, willing, wrapped around finger, yielding
Antonyms: contrary, disobedient, insolent, misbehaving, mutinous, obstinate, rebellious
Main Entry: obsequious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: groveling, submissive
Synonyms: abject, beggarly, brownnosing, complacent, compliable, compliant, cringing, crouching, deferential, enslaved, fawning, flattering, ingratiating, kowtowing, menial, obeisant, oily, parasitic, parasitical, prostrate, respectful, servile, slavish, sneaking, sniveling, spineless, stipendiary, subject, submissive, subordinate, subservient, sycophantic, toadying, unctuous
Antonyms: arrogant, assertive, brazen, confident, presumptuous
Main Entry: respectful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: courteous, mannerly
Synonyms: admiring, appreciative, civil, considerate, courtly, deferential, duteous, dutiful, gracious, humble, obedient, obeisant, polite, recognizing, regardful, regarding, reverent, reverential, self-effacing, solicitous, submissive, upholding, venerating, well-mannered
Antonyms: discourteous, mean, unmannerly
Main Entry: reverent
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: respectful
Synonyms: admiring, appreciative, deferential, devout, dutiful, gracious, humble, obedient, obeisant, pious, polite, regardful, reverential, solemn, upholding, worshipping
Main Entry: servile
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: grovelling, subservient
Synonyms: abject, base, beggarly, bootlicking, craven, cringing, despicable, eating crow, eating humble pie, fawning, humble, ignoble, low, mean, obedient, obeisant, obsequious, passive, slavish, submissive, sycophantic, toadying, unctuous, unresisting
Antonyms: aggressive, dominant
Main Entry: submissive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: compliant
Synonyms: abject, accommodating, acquiescent, amenable, bowing down, comformable, complying, deferential, docile, domesticated, dutiful, giving-in, humble, ingratiating, lowly, malleable, meek, menial, nonresistant, nonresisting, obedient, obeisant, obeying, obsequious, passive, patient, pliable, pliant, resigned, servile, slavish, subdued, tame, tractable, uncomplaining, unresisting, yes*, yielding
Antonyms: disobedient, fighting, intractable, resistant, unyielding
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