Slavish

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Slavish \Slav"ish\, a.
     Of or pertaining to slaves; such as becomes or befits a
     slave; servile; excessively laborious; as, a slavish life; a
     slavish dependance on the great. -- {Slav"ish*ly}, adv. --
     {Slav"ish*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  slavish
       adj 1: blindly imitative; "a slavish copy of the original"
       2: abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant;
          "slavish devotion to her job ruled her life"; "a slavish
          yes-man to the party bosses"- S.H.Adams; "she has become
          submissive and subservient" [syn: {subservient}, {submissive}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  42 Moby Thesaurus words for "slavish":
     abused, apish, base, browbeaten, difficult, downtrod, downtrodden,
     emulative, formidable, ground down, heavy, henpecked, imitative,
     in leading strings, knotty, laborious, mean, menial, miserable,
     misused, obeisant, obsequious, operose, oppressed, ordered around,
     overborne, regimented, rough, rugged, servile, spineless,
     strenuous, subdued, submissive, subservient, tame, trampled,
     tyrannized, uninspired, unmanned, unoriginal, wretched